Hello guys,
I’m wondering what is the best case and worst case scenario of sz?
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Worst case is Anosognosia (lack of insight “I’m not sick”)
Best case is not having negative symptoms and then responding to a med for your positive symptoms.
Just my opinion.
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Best case is you can live a normal life and the worst case will only give you nightmares.
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life can be relatively normal if you treat it fast. Its a myth that its incurable. “remission” is well documented.
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Everyone’s case is different. To me, my psychosis was the worst thing that ever happened to me and I suffered a lot. But from reading stories on this forum lots of people had it much, much worse than me.
But if you’re asking about how people end up, I guess worst case scenario would be being committed to a mental institution for life or a forensic hospital. Again, the opposite is true for me. I’m not better than anyone else but my schizophrenia symptoms seemed to have improved where I can now relax and I don’t worry I’ll end up in the hospital any day like I used to. As opposed to other peoples symptoms that don’t seem to get better.
I’m not the best case scenario by far, other people have fuller and better lives with schizophrenia and accomplish a lot more but I’m satisfied with what I’ve accomplished and I’m doing a hundred times better now than when I first got sick. It’s hard to compare peoples cases; people are so different and unique.
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I’ve found that the difference between best and worst cases of schizophrenia is your attitude. What do you want? Do you want to be enveloped and succumb to the illness because it’s easier? Or do you want to have a attitude of recovery?
Recovery doesn’t necessarily mean remission of all symptoms, but it does mean your ability to function.
I’ll always have hallucinations and delusions to a degree, but, if I get on the right medication regiment, I can augment it with therapy and my desire to live as a functional human.
In short, don’t tell yourself you can’t, even if it seems realistically impossible; instead tell yourself, okay, I have this illness, so I’ll recover as best as I can and to minimize relapses.
Overall, tell yourself what you want, and enumerate and delineate what those objectives are, and have a positive, grateful attitude. I know this may seem like a personal hell we can’t escape, but somebody always has it worse than us, so that’s one thing to be thankful for.
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Its different for everyone tbh so i couldn’t tell you how you would be like that. all i can say is i hope it will be better rather than worse and 'don’t concentrate too much on the ‘what ifs’ but just deal with things as they come like if you need to see someone or call someone or take a med etc then listen to the people in charge and try and get the best care you can to help you manage your symptoms.
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