
Finding Work and Making Money as a Person with Mental Illness
by Mike Hedrick
After being diagnosed with a serious, chronic illness like schizophrenia, it’s hard to find any purpose in life, including finding work with mental illness.
by Mike Hedrick
After being diagnosed with a serious, chronic illness like schizophrenia, it’s hard to find any purpose in life, including finding work with mental illness.
by Mike Hedrick
Disclosing your mental illness has costs and benefits, but the thing to remember is that, while it’s a tricky choice, it is most definitely a choice.
by Mike Hedrick
I start to feel a bit of ennui, a French word meaning, “general malaise.” This can go on for a while until the ennui surrounds me and depression sets in.
by Mike Hedrick
Maintaining mental health stability is a delicate dance that, at times, can be very unstable and can cause some serious trouble if you fall.
by Mike Hedrick
Finding stability with a mental illness, like anything else worthwhile, takes time, effort, and openness to learning, and failing.
by Mike Hedrick
Living with schizophrenia, I’ve been through the full gamut of side-effects. New side-effects pop up to say “hello” with each medication I’m prescribed.
by Mike Hedrick
When I was deep in the midst of a psychotic break, I was convinced that I was a prophet sent from God to save society from its ills.
by Mike Hedrick
Living with schizophrenia, I’ve experienced all manner of delusions about the way I think the way things are, and the way they actually are.
by Mike Hedrick
Love can be the gasoline on schizophrenia’s fire, playing tricks on your mind and it can lead you to places from which you may not be able to return.
by Mike Hedrick
The effect of stress is serious to your mental health. It’s easy to fall into delusional holes if your stress level gets to a point that isn’t manageable.
by Mike Hedrick
Pulling back and regaining stability is complicated but it will help exponentially help in the long journey of living with mental illness.
by Mike Hedrick
Family is the most important thing for a person with mental illness. We need support and validation that we are not alone in the world
by Mike Hedrick
Schizophrenia is an insidious disease. Schizophrenic delusions are persistent, which is one of the major reasons recovery can take such a long time.
by Mike Hedrick
One of the things people with schizophrenia do that isn’t that widely understood is the tendency to make connections out of seemingly random things.
by Mike Hedrick
The only advice I give is to be there and, above all else, give it time. Time is truly the only thing that can heal in situations like these.
by Mike Hedrick
Delusions of grandeur are part of the experience of psychosis. It’s ok if you’re a little crazy. You’re certainly not alone.
by Mike Hedrick
There are nights where I lie in bed, staring up at the ceiling and I ask for help. Sometimes the voice comes; sometimes it doesn’t. By now, I’m used to it.
by Mike Hedrick
If you’re having trouble with schizophrenia and voices, first, try to recognize the reality, that the voices are just a chemical imbalance.
Yes, I have schizophrenia. But I don’t want to sit around feeling sorry for myself because I have schizophrenia, and life can be difficult sometimes.
by Mike Hedrick
Psychosis is defined as a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.