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The psychiatrist outlined symptoms of schizophrenia that didn’t ease our minds: hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, disordered thinking and speaking, difficulty organizing thoughts, lack of awareness about having an illness, and becoming emotionally flat or distant. SCHIZOPHRENIA SUCCESS STORY FULLI worried he would never live a normal life, never have full independence, or even go to college. I had an idea of what a schizophrenic was in my head and it was bad. Suddenly my son’s mental health didn’t seem manageable at all. She said we were lucky, but it didn’t feel that way. ![]() She explained that many people with schizophrenia go through this stage and that it often goes unnoticed. SCHIZOPHRENIA SUCCESS STORY SERIESWas it more serious?Īfter a series of tests and observations, the psychiatrist diagnosed Adam with prodromal schizophrenia. But when our doctor referred us to a psychiatrist, I started to worry. I knew we could cope and he would get better. A lot of people live with and manage depression. The thought that my son was depressed was upsetting, but it seemed manageable. All of this was so unusual for our son, we contacted our pediatrician thinking he might have depression. We also learned that some of his other behaviors at that time lined up with the diagnosis: ignoring personal hygiene, struggling at school, saying odd things at unusual times, and suddenly not talking much anymore. We only learned later that this social isolation was a key sign of prodromal schizophrenia. Instead of going to school events and football games, he locked himself in his room. He quit basketball, a passion he’d had since elementary school. Eventually, most of his friends dropped away. At first, his father and I assumed he was just struggling to adjust to the idea of graduating and becoming an adult. ![]() It started in his last year of high school, just as he turned 18. What we first picked up on was his withdrawal. If he had been a more withdrawn child, even shy or introverted, we may never have noticed until full-blown symptoms set in. I think this fact is what most helped us recognize the early onset of schizophrenia. ![]() He loved people, was never shy, and had so many friends. You’re going to have to look hard for schizophrenics who are doctors or lawyers or successful businessmen.īut if you just do general searches on the internet you can find success stories and you’ll find the occasional schizophrenic who is an artist or musician or other non typical profession.Our son Adam had always been a social boy. But many schizophrenics on here have a decent recovery and many are a lot better than they once were. SCHIZOPHRENIA SUCCESS STORY PROFESSIONALYou’re not going to find a lot of schizophrenics who work at a professional level. Schizophrenics have a wide array of life experiences and you will find schizophrenics on here who do music or travel or who are married or go to school or raise children or do sports etc. Some like me, work part time for many years or work part time for ten or 15 years. ![]() A lot of us are on a spectrum and some of us may work full time for a long time, or work full time for a little while. Schizophrenics are human and thus each of us is different with different experiences and different levels off recovery. The majority of schizophrenics don’t work or go to school though but they can still have a good recovery. Of course there must be some very successful schizophrenics I’m not aware of. You’re going to find those cases are rare though. There are others who are writers or other professions. John Nash, the Nobel prize winning mathematician, Elyn Saks a law Professor and Fred Friese who ran a psychiatric hospital he was once a patient in are the most well known of successful schizophrenics. You can find three-five people who have had schizophrenia who are well known. Although there are extreme cases of people who are very successful and have schizophrenia it is not that common. ![]()
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