Can I ask what symptoms you have now that it’s mild?
I don’t believe there is such a thing as ‘mild schizophrenia’ while off of your meds. It’s like being a little pregnant…no such thing. You are or you aren’t.
Well after years of having relapses again and again, if you get the right meds AND you have a low stress life, then you may learn to life with symptoms or ignore them.
So then you don’t get relapses so much. So that it becomes a more mild inconvenience.
When I was diagnosed with sz, they said it was “mild” basically because I could function okay. I am now being treated for PTSD with dissociative features plus some other stuff. “Just do what you have to do” like @Jane82 writes.
Was dx’d with sz for responding to internal stimulii and disorganized thought.
When the doc says mild, it seems to be about function and following social rules as far as I can tell. And less distress it sounds like for people whose severity levels dropped with treatment.
@HQuinn, yes, really good explanation. Thank you.
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I agree when on meds I’ve counted my blessings. And i would like to say our illness has a symptom that tells us we don’t have it. Alcoholism has that symptom too. Of course anything is possible and maybe im not sz but i likely am considering all the symptoms I’ve had
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I was diagnosed in 1980, I was on a single medication for 20 years. Your assumption is not valid. I’ve heard the term “mild schizophrenia” tossed around every now and then. I’m not sure if there is such a thing. Some peoples symptoms are not as bad or severe as other peoples but From what I’ve seen in the 6 years I’ve been on these forums I have only seen serious symptoms. I can’t remember anyone having mild symptoms. I think mild schizophrenia is a myth or not possible. Psychosis is the trademark of schizophrenia. Psychosis is a serious state of mind that there is no way it could be mild.
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Agreed…
“If my Aunt had balls she’d be my Uncle”
No such thing as mild schizophrenia.
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Your description of your mild schizophrenia sounds exactly like my case only without meds. I’m hoping to completely eliminate symptoms while on meds. (I get paranoid delusions too so that’s not good) I was not diagnosed with sz though, I was dxd depression with psychotic features.
Even if by medical standards my case could be considered “mild” it has not felt at all mild to me. My life has been difficult.
I didn’t mean to offend anyone by saying mild schizophrenia. I do get really crazy during psychosis but I am able to do 40mg of latuda while some dont even do good on clozapine. I wouldn’t call my case which is medicateable to be severe. At least I get better.
I have mild… sauce?
That’s not typically what I’d consider a delusional disorder… more like an identity crisis in reflection to poorly regulated mental chemistry…
@sleepybug has something else but I can’t remember what it’s called… I think it might be straight up “Delusional Disorder” or something like that… SZ without any hallucinations.
I’ve got full blown SZ… it’s getting better though. No longer have @notmoses here to push CBT… I also think psycho-therapy might help in your case. You must identify why you want to believe your delusions while also learning to see reality and the self for what it is… then take to hacking away at each individual delusion.
Of course this advice is based on absolutely nothing.
Well I was also told mild by health professionals. Now I am confused. I guess they meant mild in comparison to worse case scenarios. But compared to other illnesses, no, Sz is not a mild illness.
My official diagnosis is unspecified schizophrenia spectrum disorder, and the few times I tell people about it I say I have a mild schizophrenia spectrum disorder. My meds are fairly high dosage (maximum dosage of one antipsychotic plus a fairly high dosage of another), but when I’m on them I have virtually no symptoms. I’ve been told by some people that they can tell I’m a bit off, but others say that, while they can tell I’m not quite neurotypical, they would never guess I have a serious mental illness. It helps that I’m pretty decent at math and can spout off about manifolds and vector spaces until people believe that my only problem is being an egghead 
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Residual voices and delusional thinking. I can push past them.
I was told by my pdoc that my sz is mild, but it doesn’t feel like it when the voices and thoughts are raging or when I cut myself or lie in a ball on the floor. I can’t cope well without meds, so how can it be mild?
i dont think so there is a classes of schizophrenia…
like mild,moderate,severe…
After all schizophrenia iz schizophrenia…
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When the meds work, then they work.
My risperidone is doing its job, my SZ symptoms are pretty mild - for now.
I dont know how mild they would be if I switch over to a different AP.
I also have BP symptoms to deal with.
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