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  • About Me

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    TimBlodgett

    Male, 19
    Trenton, CAN
    Member since May 28

    • About Me

      Im a photographer suffering from a mental health disorder. Trying to balance school work a love life has become difficult so I am turning to the site for some help and support.

      Im a photographer suffering from a mental health disorder. Trying to balance school work a love life has become difficult so I am turning to the site for some help and support.

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    • Out of the hospital again

      Mood August 23, 2009 8:30am

      So my second trip to the hospital. This time was the ultimate in refreshing. I admitted myself this time so I also chose to stay a little later to …

    • Am I happy to have schizophrenia

      Mood July 15, 2009 10:02pm

      http://www.schizophrenia.com:8080/jiveforums/thread.jspa?threadID=18885&tstart=0

       

      Am I glad Im schizophrenic.The question posed made me …

    • Life outside of the hospital

      Mood June 30, 2009 7:50am

      Well, I had a rough go this past month. About the 12th I had to make the decision to go into the hospital. The voices became taunting, and edged me …

    • Day one

      Mood May 28, 2009 2:41am

      Well im pretty much at rock bottom. School in the future is not looking to hopeful. I cant afford it anymore, and have other priorities. My next …

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      From amalzahir November 12

      Hope all is well with you... Just wondering how you were. :big hugs:

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      From amalzahir August 13

      You were denied disability? Ack! I just saw this - wow, I wonder about Canada's system... In the US it is normally long & drawn out & a lot of people are denied at first, then they appeal it and it is a waiting game... I applied and was approved in 2 months (it was weird & I have no idea why exactly - their pdoc interviewed me and changed my dx though to schizoaffective from bp1) Anyways I hope you can maybe apply again? I hope things are working well for you (other than that) :hugs:

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      From amalzahir August 1

      Depression can come out of nowhere and just stay like an uninvited visitor... well for me it does... Do you have schizoaffective disorder, depressed type? I almost always have low level depression - well the majority of the time. I do get manic & hypomanic here and there(and I get really really beautiful euphoric manias), but mainly it is the low level depression. It was waaaay worse & I was suicidal when not on enough meds :-( Even though I still have a form of depression, it is waaaay better than before... Are you on antidepressants? Do you find them to help?

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      From amalzahir July 31

      I am on disability here in the US (noticed your status message), yea I hate it too... I was approved in 2 months - this is highly unusual here as well, normally it takes much much longer.. :-( Anyways, I was stopping by to see how you were doing? How is everything?

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      From amalzahir July 20

      Oh me too - I spazz like no tomorrow. I hope it gets better for you.

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    • Close Schizophrenia

      Treatments

      Geodon Working / Worked
      Made me feel great. Really decreased the frequency of the hallucinations without making me feel to sedated or groggy. Causes some tremors though but it could be from my combination of drugs.
      Risperdal Not Working
      Made me feel very anxious and paranoid. Also made my stomach very upset.
      Zyprexa Somewhat Helpful
      Really helped with the voices and hallucinations, but find it sedated me and made it hard to function. Still trying to balance the dose.
      Effexor Working / Worked
      Lexapro Working / Worked
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