They diagnosed me quite early on. It was 8 or 9am.
I was diagnosed after 8 or 9 months would you say that is still an early diagnosis? I am not sure
I don’t think that’s true, I mean early diagnosis will never make me better than after taking meds or same as before my sz symptoms.
They put my life at risk by diagnosing my first episode as drug induced psychosis.
Even the second time they didn’t get it right and left me to rot in a psychotic storm for the best part of 18 months.
I ended up so ill. I think the doctors must be happy with how well the meds work for me, as I was completely â– â– â– â– â– â–
well from my PERSONAL experience this does seem to correlate with that you are saying Everhopeful.
my first episode went on for 10 months roughly before i was medicated. it took perhaps 2 to 3 months before the voices went once medicated
second time round i was medicated only after two to three weeks as this time my family were aware of the warning signs (i was laughing at everything), so then the voices went after 2 to three weeks once medicated!!!
moral of the story…as soon as you experience voices or strange very abnormal delusions, go on meds immediately don’t wait around to see if the voices will go by themselves because that is unlikely
Its easy to say but most szics will refuse meds and the fact that they’re ill, its part of the illness.
I only realized that I needed meds after I was about to die from suicide bcz of the voices.
Those are always the best 
I was 3 years untreated initially and my brain MRI looks very bad. Luckily the only cognitive deficit I have is low verbal working memory, the rest is all good.
If I had gotten help sooner, if I didn’t try to self medicate for years, if I was properly medicated, and had therapy support, I believe my symptoms wouldn’t be as bad as I let them get.
Every episode takes its toll.
I disagree with supervised dosing. You’d have to have one single person keep track. In the first couple of years my parents liked to police me. Or accuse me of either not taking it, taking something to counteract it or question me why it wasn’t working. Just make’em take it for a while until you know it’s not reacting badly then give them an injection. Would have avoided alot of fights.
Early diagnosis won’t turn treatment resistant schizophrenia into treatable schizophrenia.