I guess that you are right… I have no friends or nothing…
no drama
Relationships are hard work , but they are generally a measure of how functional a person is. But you work and socialise so that’s an advantage.
“THEY” call me a a**.
And I am one… But Im not alone
Everyone is a ■■■■■■■ sometimes,how I wish I can be more a ■■■■■■■ lol,it irritates people but being a ■■■■■■■ can be good sometimes
Sometimes you just have to let it out man… Or else
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Lol
compared to people on here who take meds…i don’t, and have psychosis on average 5 times a month…i would say it is the same.
but each person is so individual…as are their symptoms and also what they can personally cope with…
people who have late sz don’t seem to cope aswell…because they have memory of a normal life.
take care 
The one thing for sure that long term treatment with chemicals does is increase chronacity. You can take a person has episodic psychosis and put them on medication alone and in thirteen years (as is the case with me) you have chronic psychosis, not just episodic, its happens everytime.
I think that you are absolutely correct about that.
I’ve been a little off all my life but the constant voices didn’t start until maybe 20 yrs ago.
The reason that I drink beer on a regular basis is it temporarily takes me back to before the voices and paranoia.
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The long term effects of antipsychotics on the brain have not been often studied, but when they are they can be very negative, causing disorders of their own…(tardive dyskinesia for example), and if taken by a young person who’s brain is still developing, they’ve been shown to negatively affect brain development…
Many people experience a decline in the severity of symptoms as they get older (middle age and beyond-not to say it goes away, just declines in severity) and therefore possibly for them staying on the medication after that point would not be beneficial any longer.
For those who don’t, it comes down to choosing between a rock and a hard place. Pick your poison, sz or the medication. It shouldn’t have to be that way, but for now it is, until medications are improved.
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What keeps me from taking synthetic meds is first my Pop took them mid life and hated them.
Now he’s dealing with alzeimers.
Also it seems like people doping are living the same quality of life as me the difference is after 20 yrs of training my mind I’ve gotten good at it.
I think anyone that needs meds should definitely take them without a break.
I went to the hospital once early in the morning because I was having horrible dreams and thoughts of violence.
There was a line maybe 12 deep of people who had ran out of meds and needed a emergency refill?
I didn’t like what I saw and I’ll never be like that.
The voices and paranoia are bad for me but I just keep thinking ahead to my next decompressing time.
You seem at least to be not wasting your time. Working means your out and about. Many people with sz don’t leave their houses , they have little hope , and for me , since I don’t believe in an afterlife , that’s such a waste , so I take the medicine
I would want to review their data. I’ve always been wary when someone begins a sentence “studies have shown”. Most of those studies started out to support an agenda, and they are so artificial they are worthless. I’m not going to try to tell another person he should take psychotropic medications. For me, personally, every time I’ve tried to quit the medications I have gotten in trouble. I’ve seen enough at the assisted living center where I live to know that most of the people here get in trouble when they quit taking their med’s. If a person wants to try to make it without the med’s, I say let him, but I am skeptical about the results.
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I like the way you think…haha