One day at a time, maybe keep a diary organiser so u can write your daily achievements and see how it adds up and develops.
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I managed to exceed every expectation and limit placed on me by being very involved with my treatment, being involved with my medication regime and 100% compliant, and by attending therapy 1, sometimes 2, times a week for the past 9 years only missing if there was an emergency.
My outcome was also helped by having a semi-solid support system through my parents.
I’ve also regularly read skills books for CBT and DBT.
Every so often my “limits” are adjusted. My prognosis would get better then worse then better again.
Go around, go over, tunnel under, figure out something I can do in an area where I am not limited in the same way…
I can’t run. Never been able to, never will be able to. I can hike 30 km in a day and paddle 50 km in a day down a river with a bum ticker.
If you can’t do one thing, try another thing. Just don’t stop trying.
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Hey, I am no dummy! 
On a more serious note, we just do what is necessary any given time, no more, no less. On that note if you can motivate yourself forward, good for you - I am pretty unmotivated on most days and I have to accept it as a feature of this disease.
Truthfully im in the same boat due to cardiomyopathy and a ICD defibrillator AND i had a major 2 year long psychotic episode and got sent to a school that didnt give grade 12 diploma
If the 2 year long episode didnt happen my life would of turned out differently
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Are e cigs bad for you? I don’t smoke but my dad did.
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Although AI did make my upper lip weird grumble
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What was changed by Ai lol ?
You know I thought that I could improve my mental state by lowering my meds. That went well for many many years. I can’t lower my meds anymore because I’ve reached my personal buttom. So now I just have to face my limitation and accept those. That’s not easy.
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Hi Relaxe; I find it hard to accept that limitation with medication too. Because I have hyperprolactinamia possibly caused by the medication as I read online, and from my doctor. This could cause bone and teeth thinning especially over the years. I am not excatatic about that. This is why I am still wondering if I may one day try to come off again under the supervision of a psych doctor. Accepting limitations is hard indeed and sometimes I wonder if we can really know our limitations unless we ocasionally excced our limitation to know it is a limitation.
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probably best I stay on the abilify though
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We all have our (comparative ) strengths & weaknesses.
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Even when I can’t change problems in my life I can still change how I react to them and move on from them.
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Yes I understand that very well my prolactine levels are also too high. But you know some times we must bite in the bitter apple and accept the things we cannot change.
Yes let your doctor help you with the tapering of the Abilify.
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Sometimes it’s important to protect your body and health
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Yea …I try to keep that in mind.
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