I hope it is not inappropriate to post a thank you without a story. I would have wished to respond to so many of these stories one by one. But as the site provides no forwarding email, all my appreciation must be pooled here on this one entry. Your stories meant so very much to me in so many ways. Aspects of my past are finally not alone to dwell on themselves, freeing much of myself the freedom to deal with my life (or what lacked from it), and the clarity to be removed from the longing to understand others experiences so I could relate and move on with my own. I am so grateful to have found this resource and wish I had a way to contact some of you. What I have gained is more than I could have ever asked for. What had consumed my thoughts about my own past episode(s) was that although I was very alone and ignorant of schizophrenia symptoms at the time I felt a near obsessional belief that it linked a few straggler people together through rogue kinds of life experience.
Hopefully, our journey through healing and the attainment of a life we want won’t have to be compromised by our health, or even the demands to achieve it. Thank you guys for sharing, it meant a lot to me.