I've made an amazing, possibly miraculous recovery. seriously. in most places, I would have been put in the state hospital. i guess here, in my case, they were just kinda like...ugh...well, you can have disability. LOL.

id like to work. disability is a blessing, its been a blessing, but...I'm in my early 30s, my parents are getting older, and...honestly, I don't want to be a "mental patient" indefinitely. I'll take the psych drugs, no problem, but...now that I'm healthy, remarkably "stable," and I even have a decent IQ estimate (how...I do not know...), I'd like to get one of those j-o-b things I keep hearing about. thing is..

how? I mean, have any of you out there transitioned out of the pit and into relative normalcy? and, at a practical level...

do you think I'll end up having to move? the thing about this whole "mental illness" thing is that there's a -very- strong social component, too, so I'm wondering...

should I Maybe get to tech school, get some kind of useful training, and get out of here?

my counselor and shrink aren't all that helpful (surprise, surprise). i mean, they're well-intentioned, and I like them as people, but...it is what it is, I guess.

Thanks.