Just wondering 15151515
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I don’t know medically speaking if that’s a fact.
However, I started hearing voices in November 2014. In 2020, they worsened to the point where it was debilitating finally. I’m sure my psychosis was debilitating to a point before that, but this was so bad that I had to get diagnosed and couldn’t function well anymore.
What I’m trying to say is my schizophrenia got worse until I was medicated.
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My symptoms generally wax and wane, but i think it’s gotten better over the last 30 years. I don’t know if it’s better medication or just age. I still have episodes where i go in the hospital, but it’s not like it was in the 1990s where i would be in the hospital for over a month at times. My worst episode was in 1992 and i self harmed so bad that i needed internal stitches under the external ones…i no longer do that kind of harm and no longer get put in the state hospital for 5 months…so, for me, it’s gotten better over time.
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Mine has stayed about the same over three decades. I have gotten better at dealing with it.
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My situation overcome from schizophrenia. I was medicated for 25 years.
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Mine has gotten better, I’m a hundred times better than when I was first diagnosed and was psychotic for 2 1/2 years straight. After that psychosis I got fairly stable only to relapse 6 years later. It took me about a year to recover from that relapse. Then I had some good years, I was very social and productive for about 6 years.
I then cruised along working and living on my own. I still had symptoms but when I got to be about 48 my symptoms started getting better and I wasn’t afraid all the time that I would go to the hospital. Now I’m 63 and I still experience symptoms but they aren’t as intense and intrusive as they used to be. When I first got sick it was a constant fight to hold on to my sanity. No more.
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Some things are better, some things are worse. I’m about the same.
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Maybe. But not for everyone. It is harder on some people than others. I made it worse than it need me by being super self indulgent.
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Positive symptoms tend to lessen while negative, cognitive and anxiety tend to increase.
I read it tends to get less severe with age but I’m sure it depends
I’m less emotionally reactive than I used to be . I can’t say for certain whether it’s a natural part of getting older, or due to being on regular meds.Severe social anxiety, the stress of being an undiagnosed autistic person for many years,the effects of bullying related trauma, and more than mild executive functioning deficits, have been far more disabling than comparatively mild schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder. A situation not helped by long term lack of help and support for those things that have been more disabling than the schizophrenia schizoaffective.
If you don’t want to read all the answers here is what they say: https://youtu.be/c4CVKbVtTsc?feature=shared
I had a sudden onset at age 29 it was intense but subdued in about 2/3 years
My depression has gotten way better. My psychosis has stayed mostly the same or has worsened. But I’ve become much better at coping with it.