Would you date someone with schizophrenia?
I've never had trouble with hook ups, relationships don't always last too long though. I function fine, have plenty of friends, do well in my college classes, and hold down a job just fine. I handle being drunk well, am fine high, and can handle some of the strong stuff like any other person. All in short, you wouldn't know I'm a schizo unless I told you, and I rarely do. I don't get violent, I don't "talk to myself" in public, I don't have depression or anxiety, I'm just chill with a few mental hiccups every now and then.
But, some nights get rough, I have a tri-daily medicine routine with high doses that make me sick/drowsy sometimes, I meet with a clinical psychiatrist bi-weekly for an hour, and have been hospitalized 4 times in my life between the age of 17 and now, I'm 23. With how my breed of schiz usually goes, it'll get slightly worse up until I'm 30 and then "calm down" (Schizophrenia is an incurable disease)
How much would my level of mental health weigh into a relationship? Or any level of my disease/other psych illness?
| Yes | 24 | |
| No | 16 | |
| Only if it's well managed (No episodes/fits) | 23 | |
| I wouldn't date anyone with a mental illness | 13 |