Full time is even less. I miss working, it was keeping me busy and felt useful contributing to society and enjoying more money. Since I am on Risperidone I do not work, its the best med for me for psychosis no positive symptoms but makes me tired and unmotivated. It got better after 3 years I stay much less in bed but the improvement in motivation is only 20-30℅. Will there be more improvement to the point of going back to work?
On Latuda I was able to last a year in one job. But had some positive symptoms and akathisia at night was hearing neutral voices which did not affect my behavior. Also had nightmares. Now I do not even try to get a job on risperidone.
I want to go back on Latuda but having akathisia and mild positive symptoms sucks.
I do better than most but getting on disability was a great choice for me 20 years ago.
Like getting rid of the stress of work was magical because I’m a great worker but I break down and get paranoid and then I get stressed and then I get paranoid and it’s a shite and horrible circle.
Like look into it if you can. I’ve survived 20 years but my parents have been gawds so now Dad is having medical issues I can be there for him…so it’s hard but I’m a carer now and mentally better but no intention of going back to work.
I was on Abilify for 8 years, I was always angry on it and my voice was high talking like I am yelling. Also I think it was not fully effective for my psychosis as I was hearing neutral and funny voices of people I know even though it kept me out of the hospital. I had short term jobs on it lasted up to a month. Latuda was better if it was not for the akathisia and made me puke sometimes. Abilify is a partial agonist so its not as effective as risperidone.
Did your motivation improve after years of stability? Mine did after being on risperidone for 3 years but by only like 20-30℅. I used stay a lot in bed.
I have sz since 16 years ago, improvement is very slow like a small improvement every few years. I keep thinking its the meds but when I lower my dose I get cognitive problems like disorganised thoughts or laughing for no reason or memory problems. I think its psychosis coming back.
Yeah i went off my meds for a week and feel like absolute crap. No psychosis but just feel terrible. I just took a pill like 15 minutes ago. Hopefully I chill out a bit from it and go back to some semblance of relaxation lol.
Oh and yeah i dont work. Not for a couple of years now. Done dozens of different jobs over the years. Cant handle it. I always abruptly quit from stressing out haha.
Max I went without meds without a relapse is 10 days then I felt a rush of agitation so I took meds. I feel like the longer you are off meds the more insight you will lose eventually refusing meds. I did this over a decade ago and relapsed for 2 years, was good for like 6 months until I relapsed. Now I do not dare letting that rush of energy or agitation control me. I think since my last relapse I will relapse much faster as I read after each relapse the brain becomes more sensitive and relapses much faster.
True dat. I have done the same thing ay! I went off my meds years ago and managed to stay off them for aaaages. But eventually I was losing insight and started not sleeping and next thing I knew, I was fully manic and psychotic at a scary level. Took ages to recover too. Sucks.
The reason I’m unemployed is because I feel I can’t handle being observed and micro-analyzed by co-workers behind my back. I tried abilify and it made me so restless I thought it’s better to not exist than have to feel what abilify does. my pdoc said I’m not taking enough, but I noped out of that med with no regrets and now I can say at least my life is not as bad as that. it feels like my art career is on hold because of ai spammers but at least it’s not abilify
I started working when I was 16.I worked up until my early 40’s. Was working 2 jobs when Sz hit me hard.
I had a long break and then worked for about 10 months part time recently. THe job I had was too much stress on my body. But the mental stress was there as well.
Finding a job that is not too much stress on one or the other that Im qualified for is hard. Honestly, we are not in that bad of shape now since we sold the condo. I got through the time period where I really NEEDED to work, and I’m grateful I was able too.
I dont know what the future holds for me for work. SInce I quit smoking I sleep so much…and I dont know if I can handle the physical and mental stress of the jobs I might be able to get.
I’m trying to look for a full time job but it’s hard for me to focus on my job. I used to keep thinking coworkers were talking about me from behind my back but now I know better. I just hope that someday I could work as a scientist or photographer.
You should ask chat gpt or another language model the Question about ’ does Risperdal or other atypicals improve negative symptoms of Schizophrenia much’ then you’ll know.
No sorry to say this but our condition is rated as the second most disabling condition according WHO just after blindness.
Do you know any blind person that is in imployment.