No Problemo,
Have a Good Morning, Noon, Afternoon, Evening, And or Night (!!!)… . … 
I don’t like the word “recovery”.
The implication of the word is that you need try to get back to where you were in the premorbid stage
of your life.
Well, I have a news flash for you:
In many regards, my situation now is better than it was before I became schizophrenic.
So I refuse to call it recovery, but rather “constant progress”, “evolution” would be more appropriate words.
you too! 
Metamorphosis !
A Cocoon !
A Time Travelling Adventure (!!!)… . …
Take Your Med’s Kid’s (!!!)… . … 
Its sad that 15% of SZs die by suicide. I tried once when I was unmedicated and psychotic. It was the only way to end the voices.
I am in the 25% that are better but need help from a strong support network to get by.
Source: WebMD https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-outlook
I could see that. I don’t really mind the word recovery myself but there are times that I feel like I’m supposed to get back an old self, which is impossible.
There’s this excerpt that I really like, which I thought of when you mentioned being better than before:
"During my survivor personality research I became aware of a big gap in survivor stories. I found stories about people being made stronger and better from every kind of human adversity except for people who have gone through a mental or emotional disturbance. The silence about such survivors is especially puzzling considering a statement made by the famous psychiatrist Karl Menninger in 1963:
Not infrequently we observe that a patient who is in a phase of recovery from what may have been a rather long illness shows continued improvement, past the point of his former ‘normal’ state of existence. He not only gets well, to use the vernacular; he gets as well as he was, and then continues to improve still further. He increases his productivity, he expands his life and its horizons. He develops new talents, new powers, new effectiveness. He becomes, one might say, “weller than well.”…every experienced psychiatrist has seen it…What could it mean? It violates our conventional medical expectations, so perhaps it is often overlooked and occurs more often than we know. It may contain a clue for better prevention and better treatment. (p.406)
…transcendence does occur. And perhaps it is not an exception but a natural consequence of new insights and new concepts of treatment…Transcendence might happen oftener if we could more frankly acknowledge the possibility of its occurrence, expect it, hope for it, even though we are bound to be often disappointed…the reader can be certain that there are thousands of unknown examples who have not been discovered or who have not yet written about their experiences. (p. 409)"
The Vital Balance
The Viking Press, 1963
Co-authors Martin Mayman and Paul Pruyser
ok! Thanks for helping me hash some of this out. I’m trying to get a better understanding and learn from other perspectives.
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