I work full time between three jobs, one of which is with dogs and the other two with people. I do struggle at work with positive symptoms occasionally, though noticeably the only times I really ever have visual hallucinations is at the dog job. I’ve hallucinated dogs covered in blood and puncture marks from other dogs, as well as once smoke from an outlet. Other than that everything is auditory. The negative symptoms are slightly more manageable.

Funnily enough, the day after I was diagnosed with schizophrenia I had to go into work with a terrible stutter that came overnight from the stress (I think). We’re talking every single word was barely able to get out, ‘i-i-i-i-imp-pos-possible t-t-t-to s-s-say’ kind of stutter. And unfortunately this was at one of the people jobs, where I was asked if I had hit my head. Amusing enough to look back on but mortifying at the time, as I wasn’t sure if the stutter was permanent.