What are your biggest challenges?
Even with treatments my psychotic/mood disorder affects my daily life significantly. If I don’t sleep for a couple of days I get really psychotic quite fast and to stop it in the beginning phase is very important, because the longer it lasts, the harder it is to get back to baseline. The schizo-deficit symptoms are maybe not as strong in my case but still there, I often cannot get going with my activities. I also have an autistic spectrum condition/Asperger syndrome that influences my whole life in many ways.
Other medical conditions that really affect my daily life are pain and epilepsy. The pain is severe in degree, often due to the conditions of paroxysmal hemicrania and Chiari malformation. I take opioid painkillers when I cannot function due to pain level and the emotional part of physical agony. The epilepsy is kind of in control by my anticonvulsants but I still have some difficult symptoms and there are limits I cannot break due to this disease.
But no matter how many challenges I face, I’m still here and I’m never giving up the fight. Thanks for reading ❤
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