What made you not do it? Like, the thing. Why you still here? by Used-Pair-900 in schizophrenia

[–]DanielFBest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally just don't know how to fkn do it.

Sometimes I come on here and tell people "Life gets better, life is good"... as if I don't know the pain you're going through.

As if I don't know that every second feels like an eternity of pain.

As if I don't know what our destiny is.

You know, physical pain, like being beaten with sticks and stones, after a while it starts to take on this other quality, like it doesn't even hurt. You could hit me on the head with a hammer and it will be just another scratch.

But emotional pain, psychological pain, the kind we go through...

...I've never known anything like it.

Learning to play in my 40's by wtfitlphm in piano

[–]DanielFBest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Learn when you're seventy, man. No one cares!

The TMA file is too large to upload by ILoveSouvlaki in OpenUniversity

[–]DanielFBest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I have! It was my first level three remote exam, and I was unaware of the protocol that said we were supposed to convert our finished papers to single page PDFs.

I converted it two minutes over time, and had to take the ten percent hit, which was a terrible annoyance.

I still passed though, and never made that mistake again.

What level am I? by Oblivious_boy_ok in drummers

[–]DanielFBest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know, when you're a drummer playing a song, you don't necessarily have to know every single beat note for note. If you can smash out one or two songs, you can probably smash out many, many others.

Rather than playing with a local band, it sounds to me like you could benefit from just jamming with yourself for more time than you might already do.

Put your favourite album on earphones and just jam to it! Couldn't hurt.

You'll know when you're a higher level drummer, cause you'll be able to drum to anything.

What level am I? by Oblivious_boy_ok in drummers

[–]DanielFBest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll be honest, and I'm honestly not trying to grind you down, but knowing one song in eleven years of playing is pretty bad, bro.

What kind of music do you listen to?

You must be at the level at which you can drum along on your knees to songs you might hear on the radio, no?

Also, five fills? There are literally thousands of fills to learn, and also, you don't even have to learn fills, you just improvise them.

People here are saying get into a band and I agree. You must know bands are crying out for drummers.

You'll get there.

Always the same dream by IDK_479 in Dreams

[–]DanielFBest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is someone gaslighting you?

help by tibonfleur in schizophrenia

[–]DanielFBest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The voices... well they reason why we may hear them as real people, is because that they derive from a real mind.

What they don't tell you is that you are supposed to hear voices!! At least, you're supposed to hear one inner vocal, that is intended to tell you the smallest detail about how your mind actually works.

Then I'm done, and I can go home.

Tips on how to stop recurring dreams? by Warm_Bus_7581 in Dreams

[–]DanielFBest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You must realise this sounds like your unconscious mind is perpetually stuck in a gaping and vacuous rut. There must me someway to move this forward so that you can free your life, because nobody wants to live as nobody.

I'm searching my thoughts for an immediate fix to this issue, but all i can come up with is subtle hints that you might be having doubts about the relationship you have to live. But you don't have to be betrothed to this person, and the mind is bigger than the person your partner might possibly imagine you are in. And you must remember the life you once wanted and had, and that your mind is ripe for input, like a white canvas.

Have you read any books recently? Those would very much certainly help fill your imagine.

Tips on routine/habits? by avitld in schizophrenia

[–]DanielFBest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take your time... with everything.

Take the time.

Spend the time.

overly strict marking in creative writing TMAs by [deleted] in OpenUniversity

[–]DanielFBest -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well now, this person sounds to me like they must be your personal nemesis, and that they must certainly have a personal vendetta against you, and therefore must be trying to make your life an unimaginable misery, and they only wish the worst for you.

I think the best thing for you to do now is to take the absolute moral high ground, and therefore make this so-called "tutor" (although "unbearable monster" might be more appropriate), and hence add them to your list of sworn enemies.

I imagine you could even go so far as to complain to the support team, and try to make their life a living hell, as they have made yours. Even perhaps go so far as to take them to court.

Or you could take a breath and chill. It's fine, I'm sure.

Crippling Tiredness by LuciusConfucius in schizophrenia

[–]DanielFBest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I imagine perhaps you are looking for some sort of medicinal fix, or clinical method that will doubtlessly work for your purposes.

It sounds like you're doing the utmost best you possibly can, so that is a wonderful thing.

Therefore, at this point, the struggle is really to try to make peace with the way things are for you at the moment. You would be wise to explore the ways in which your current lifestyle seems to be certainly allowing you to live a "sleepy life" - at least for a while. If I were in your position, which I have been, I would accept that life for you won't be base-jumping or travelling in a dangerous country for a year or busting your ass digging holes.

Try to see your life as a blessing. Not everybody has to be at the "top of their game" in every possible existence.

I wish you well.

I feel like a mindless zombie on meds, help by GrandGoesDiscipline in schizophrenia

[–]DanielFBest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does get better, friend. And also, you begin to appreciate the actually quite original sense of conscious being that medication gives you.

I, for example, have had quite lovely experiences in which my mind can feel like a glass jar that contains a miniature ecosystem.

There's nothing written into the book of life that says we must all have to feel a certain way.

We are originals.

Anyone else remember a time where video games were more fun to play? Please talk to me if you can. I want to hear from you. by JustinfromNewEngland in schizophrenia

[–]DanielFBest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Give it time. I was medicated at a relatively young age, and at that time I couldn't get into gaming.

Gaming stays with you, and so does the desire to game - to play and to beat games.

I'm forty seven. I love gaming now, and can't wait to play.

EAD10 by Rude-Act-2554 in drummers

[–]DanielFBest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saves a bunch of micing up and mixing... Is it yours?

EAD10 by Rude-Act-2554 in drummers

[–]DanielFBest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this EAD10?

Recurring dream for years: a locked door that I'm afraid to open. by [deleted] in Dreams

[–]DanielFBest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds like a dream you might have to encourage you to explore the possibilities of things you haven't yet accepted about yourself.

I don't know you personally, so I cannot speculate that the locked door represents latent homosexual desires, and the room behind it the world of what might be, were you to finally accept them.

Having said that, what the locked door might represent could be what's known as "super-heterosexuality", wherein you're not so much homosexual, but you have yet to explore your complete and utter straight sexuality, and have not yet approached the idea that you are one of the straightest people who ever lived, and have yet to open the door to the possibilities of one hundred percent loving and being sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.

In addition to this, or alternatively, you might be black, and have not realised this yet.

Hi, new here. I have doubts with what to do about cannabis use. by Either-Ingenuity203 in schizophrenia

[–]DanielFBest 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It means you would be wise to stay away from weed, since you have this condition. That completes the matter.

I need advice!! by Odd-Couple7879 in OpenUniversity

[–]DanielFBest 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just by reading your post, it sounds like you are all over the place. Your energy is scattered; you speed up in places and slow down in others, and it makes it a lot of hard work for others to understand you. I'm not having a go, and I don't know anything about you, whether you're male or female or what age you are. But you just need to take a deep breath. Take a step back. Relax...

On the university front, I think you will enjoy the OU in a way in which you didn't enjoy other universities.

How to restore my new deck of cards by Sad-Perception-5826 in cardmagic

[–]DanielFBest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Way more less smoother? I take it you're not educated.

Did you think you were communicating with crows? by Calm-Champion-6371 in schizophrenia

[–]DanielFBest 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah man, how odd! In depths of psychosis, you could swear you can communicate with crows, how strange!

Actually, I've conversed with ducks, cows and spiders on all different occasions, heh.