Since I was diagnosed at 16, and then eventually accepted the diagnosis, I’ve never really considered that I might one day get better. I’ve been told by doctors that it most likely won’t ever go away, so I just didn’t dream of a life without it.
I just want to know if anyone has overcome schizophrenia, or if anyone is doing really well now.
Well I’m damn sure working on it. I’m never giving up.
About 25 years ago I had several doctors tell me that I was never getting better and that they could sort of ‘relieve my symptoms’ though meds. Nuke me into numbness, basically. Then I made the decision to try and get better anyhow.
And I did.
Recovery is possible. Not easy (at all). But it IS possible.
I’m doing better now than I have since childhood. That’s the last time I remember being happy and functional. I’m just afraid it won’t last.
Keep hope alive and keep trying, we can get through this.
Speaking for us all victims, I can say we all love you. That is priceless. We do so to make you better.
What work did you do to get better?
I am doing great I was quite delusional and my life kinda went down the toilet for a while. But I have a normal life , good job ,great kids, financially stable, strong faith. good marriage. Not bragging just saying normal life. Thanks to meds , faith, and working threw things overtime. I am fortunate and I know that everyone won’t be as fortunate. I know other sz that live pretty normal lives to. There are things I deal with but everyone deals with something so that’s why I say things are pretty normal at our house. But the sz is still there I need my meds.
So good to hear!
Keep up the fight ,if something is not working try something different. Stay strong brigher days are ahead
5 stages of schizophrenia
1 Complete irrationality and fantasy-Completely walking around in a fantasy new world, going through the motions of it all, off the rails and irrational
2 Rationalizing the unrational, Bugs in a can of bugs-
Trying to get a grasp in a unnamed reality and determining that these experiences are not real, irrational, and unknown. In other words, denial of such congruency.
Many get lost on step 2 and the transition to 3, it’s a make it or break it point, and can be a main decider where your life turns out.
3 “The golfers speciality”-
There is no step 3, this being the 3rd step
4 “Waking up”- I would like to explain it, but it’s not something to be explained and it’s a individuals own coming through, it may be right where your feet already are.
They say time is a great healer and divider of things.
5 New beginnings-
Cj56: Is this your personal discovery? It sounds relevant.
I think some people do recover enough that they no longer need med’s or therapy, but not very many. They don’t have a cure for schizophrenia. They can only treat the symptoms. I think it is possible to achieve some form of peace and contentment when you have sz, but you still need treatment.
Are they able to effectively treat negative and cognitive symptoms?
I sure hope it’s possible, because I’m not giving up.
lol that first picture. lol lol lol lol
I had one Doctor tell me I could go off meds at some point, She was wrong, I went off them and lost it.
Would be nice but with added medical stuff now the whole thing is getting to be to much stress, Medical appoinments every week now. Makes the SZ battle just a little harder to deal with.
Also? One other thing…
Those SZs who are mostly negative and think they won’t recover? Never seen one of that lot get better. Seen lots of them get worse, however. These people are toxic to the recovery-minded and best avoided.
