Need some advice on managing my schizophrenia.?

(I also suffer from clinical depression)

I`m taking the meds as prescribed, I`m trying to keep occupied (housework, gardening,cooking, walking to the corner shop to by the morning paper.)I`m watching what I eat and trying to keep a regular programme of physical exercise.I`m also trying hard to stay upbeat and positive....is there anything else I can do to help myself as I still find myself exhausted from the medication?

I found keeping a journal was helpful. try to take a few minutes each day and write both the good and bad that came with that day. Over time you may begin to see two things. One is that on bad days you will see that you have had other bad days, and that you have been able to move to a better emotional state. second you may start to see some linkages as to what might help provoke a good day or a bad day. by being aware, you can try to duplicate the good strokes and avoid the bad ones. At to the comment about meds being a crutch. I am not a doctor, but i will tell you this, mental illness is not a bad thing, a lazy thing, it has nothing to do with you per se. it is the inablity for your body or mind to regulate all of the various hormones and brain chemestries correctly. Medications when used properly and under the constant care of a doctor and therepist, can help move you back toward the "norm" of behaviour. and you are doing most of what a therepist would recommend that you do to be positive. so keep working at it, and try to gain more insight into what you see yourself experiencing.

I think depression is a big part of it
i used to have that problem but im much better now
alot of it came from stress for me.
MY job plus i drank to much
and probly woried a little to much
over stupid crap
meds can help but i veiw them as a crutch (TEMP.)