Dealing with schizophrenia?

Hello Guys.
I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, three years ago and been to a mental faculty 3 times after that, I have my medication and my people understand me and treat me accordingly, I want to know in what ways can a person Lesson the illness, such as doing something other than what you're mind tells you to do? I can't even focus on important things without having to take a walk, yet in my mind that is important information when I am left to my own devices. (hearing, seeing things), wanting my old life back when I was always reading and talking to people before "This" came up that is all I want.

I'm always sleepy, always get cussed in my thoughts and see hallucinate things and Not doing anything productive and unable to form decent relationships. plus I didn't finish school and left when it was my last year in HS, id rather be in my mothers basement than people picking on you. So what is the answer to a lifelong mental-illness such as schizophrenia??

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SomeLikeItHot ·

I would recommend that you take the time to write out what you know is reality that you have questioned in the past.
Also write out the activities that alert you that you are in a delusionary state.

Schizophrenia manifests delusions in Catatonic, paranoid, hallucinatory and grandiose behaviors and beliefs.

When you are "sane" it is much easier to distinguish the challenges you have so that is when you need to make your "life raft" of reality.

Lonesomewolf2018 · 26-30, M

@SomeLikeItHot Ok I think I will do this, helps reflect on what you understand what realty is like.

SomeLikeItHot ·

@Lonesomewolf2018
The good thing is that you write it when you are not experiencing episodes.
Later when delusional thinking overcomes you. You can come back to that source and read it and trust it as an authority of reality.