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Originally Posted by faerie_moon_x
Are you just asking out of curiosity? They are really careful about people doing their research on us for other reasons.
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I'm asking out of natural curiosity. I'm not a medical researcher, however I'm hopeful that useable data can be gleaned from this. There are not enough controls in place to produce a rigorous scientific result, but I still think we can learn something about our illness from it. My profession is engineering, the only reason I know so much about schizophrenia, mood disorders, and ADHD is I've been diagnosed with them since I was a small child. Using my knowledge of science and engineering, I have done everything I can to learn everything I can about these disorders at the deepest level. I have only one agenda, I just want to feel better. Going all the way back to kindergarden, I've had this disability for 30 years. I've seen every aspect of the patient side of mental health, including five hospitalizations, two of which were in state institutions. My experiences have spanned the gamut, ranging from not being able to tie my own shoes and being on full disability to times where I've worked for fortune 100 companies as a brilliant computer engineer. They've said my IQ was very high, but some days I can't even tie my own shoes! It's very frustrating to go from full remission to having a complete regression, and losing my family and livelihood in the process. Nevertheless, I keep trying, and everyday I learn something new that I can share with others.