My case worker at the end of my Dr visit asked me what does complete recovery mean to me?
So I said I will never recover from this, & that recovery for me meant staying stable & on my meds… What did she want me to say? Holding down a full time job & start a family? I cannot simply ‘recover’ from schizophrenia, its not a simple head cold or flu or stomach bug it is a damn serious mental condition that 99% of the time doesn’t go away in people.
And what really grinds my gears is, seems like if I don’t tell me dr or case manager every detail of my life in the 15 minutes i see them every 3 months, I’m presumably fine? haha
Functional recovery is rare and different than remission. Everybody’s illness is different. Some are more severe than others.
To me, recovery is a part time job or full time job. I need to have realistic expectations and standards. It is hard sometimes because the old me is still there. It is hard to reach our potential.
I hate questions like that. I just don’t know what to say. I just want the old me back…but then i can’t really remember who the old me was so i guess i’m screwed. I guess recovery for me would be 100% control over all of my symptoms.