Not drug induced? I heard it only gets better as you age but not entirely sure
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Mine has got better, in my 20s I was sectioned every 3 months for duration of my 20s. In my 30’s I’ve only been sectioned 5 times and I’m able to cope but I get loads of support from the mental health team.
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Mine was drug induced when I was 16/17
Then I stopped the Olanzapine at 19
By 23 it went down hill again with no drugs involved
Escaped treatment for a good few years until the break was total
Somehow even though I’d been in hospitals at a young age no one around me had the wherewith to notice
Let’s just say that they came down on me like a ton of bricks
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I only have to talk about left armpit microchips and I’m sectioned.
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I was diagnosed early 20s, by my late 20s. I manage to travel by bus to and from places. I can go two days of activity and then I need to rest whereas before that I had to rest at least four days roughly before I’d bother to mentally be ready to go out again.
I can read books as long as I’m interested in what I have to read and can anticipate what the content is about
Before, I developed a phobia of words on pages and couldn’t read at all really
Erm, I do my laundry weekly, I do my shopping biweekly groceries via online app.
I shower regularly whereas when I was diagnosed I was sort of afraid of showers and very avoidant of them.
I guess what I’m saying is that this is all evidence of progress
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the gets better as you age thing is nonsense that cant be taken as a rule
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Mine has gotten better, but idk if it’s aging… or if it’s the meds… I’d say it’s both possibly
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The first 2 1/2 years were the worst with constant psychosis when I was 19. When I got out of the hospital I slowly got better until I relapsed 7 years later. After about a year I slowly got better and had some productive years. I am way better now than I was when I was younger. So Broken is right, there’s no guarantee things will get better but it’s true for me and many others.
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I got it at 30 and by the time I was 35 it had gotten a lot better. Now at 40 with medication I am mostly normal with the exception of some auditories that I ignore.
I think the trend is for it to get better, not worse, for most people over time.
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I had a bad psychotic episode at 36. Didnt think that was going to happen again.
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Mine did.
But first the bipolar aspect of my sza illness was extremely bad in my 20’s, 30’s, and early 40’s. Then in my mid 40’s, all my bipolar mood symptoms suddenly
stopped and I was
left with psychotic
symptoms, that were always there, but now became increasingly worse as I passed my 40’s, 50’s and into my current mid 60’s.
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So, for me, over time, my mood symptoms got much better. But my psychotic symptoms got a lot worse.
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After what happened the 1st 2nd and 3rd times I have not provided anything more than minimal information
I was late onset…prodromal from about 30 to 35 and then full blown psychosis at 35. it was a horrible time early in my recovery…I finally got put on a med I love and now I’m in my second marriage and very happy…i’m now 62,
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