Replies to '11/23 Schizophrenia'

Hi thank you for the kind words.  But please don't feel sorry for me.  Yes, i struggle every day with this disease.  Sometimes I get so fed up I just want to die or stab something into my ears to make the voices stop.  But I am a fighter.   I take my meds regularly, even when I don't want to... thanks, in part,  to my husband who nightly asks "have you taken your meds?".   I have a disease like many others.  Many people also have this disease whose voices need to be heard.  I am so grateful to Dr. Phil and all the producers and others on the show who gave me the chance to have my voice heard.  I tried to speak for those who haven't had the opportunity I had with this show but everyone is different.  Schizophrenia manifests itself in many ways.  But there are also millions of others who have other kinds of diseases they struggle with.  Like diabetes, or fibromyalgia, cerebral palsy.... and the list goes on and on.  I guess my point is...  we all have our struggles in life.  but ultimately it comes down to a choice each of us has to make for ourselves.  We can do the things that we know will make our lives easier (such as taking meds and joining a gym like I just did last week).  It's a choice to be happy.  I choose to take the meds, with all their side effects ...including weight gain... so that I can be happy and share my life with my husband and my son.  I don't want my son to remember me when he's older as a mother with schizophrenia, but just as a mother that he, hopefully, loves.