I guess it’s all relative. I’m “normal” for me right now, and have been for a few months. Working hard in therapy to improve. As far as positive symptoms go, I am by no means free of them. Maybe a 75% reduction, and that’s about all I can expect before I get snowed by meds and become a bag of side effects. But you could say a diabetic is normal if their blood sugar is 90. Or a hypertensive person is taking calcium channels blockers and has a blood pressure of 110/70. I’m relearning how to love myself even though I reserve extreme disdain for society and other people.
I feel pretty normal on meds.
Off meds I either have brainfog and a lot of symptoms, both positive and negative, or I’m almost manic.
On meds I feel alert, present, and relatively normal functioning
I’ve never felt “normal” compared to others for as long as I’ve lived. Maybe even longer if Shirley MacLaine is right about how things work. Either I’m functional or I’m not, that’s how I measure it.
Yes i was living it up for 4 years on Latuda pretty well now i need to switch to something else (Abilify) on 5mg right now gonna ask them to juice me up to 10mg on Monday hopefully it works wish me luck.