Has anyone fully recovered from their illness?
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No.
And I don’t know if it’s possible
No Chance at all, that is a say of many of my psychiatrists to me; and now it is inside me, became part of me – particularly the character, what I feel fearful. But all are under control since I am willing to be handled.
My last psychiatrist said he thought I was in remission. However, I still suffer from symptoms, so, no, not in that sense of being complete free. But, I’ve learned a lot of coping skills. I consider myself an optimist despite hearing the worst kinds of voices. It took a ton of work. I’ve done many CBT exercises and read every self-help book I could get my hands on. I’ve done meditations, mindfulness training, etc. I also have a box full of compliments, achievements, and sometimes good things that I see other people do, all on pieces of coloured paper. I read them when I get down and it helps.
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No. I’m one of the more functional people on this site and I still have to live with positive and negative symptoms and I take my meds. The meds have knocked the positive symptoms down to a level I can tolerate and therapy keeps them from bothering me too much. The negs are awful and I feel like I go through life dragging a boat anchor around behind me, but I keep going because there is no other choice.
The best advice I can give is don’t expect the meds to do most of the work because they won’t. Diet, exercise, therapy, supplements, and a recovery-oriented attitude (growth mindset) are what make the difference for the most of the ones I see doing well apart from myself.
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No. I hope to so that I can live life
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I have. But only with meds and a lot of coping skills. Sure I have negatives and struggle with amotivation and withdrawal at times. But I don’t let it get me down.
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I think it depends on your definition of fully recovered. I mean for example, if your symptoms are gone but you are still taking meds does that count as fully recovered? Or what if your positive symptoms are almost gone but you suffer from negatives which affect your daily life?
I’ve never met anyone yet, online or irl who fits a definition of fully recovered where they have zero symptoms and are successfully off meds for a significant amount of time. The researchers or psychiatrists or whoever claims that 1/3 of schizophrenics fully recover have never given me a satisfactory example.
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I am in remission and don’t get a lot of symptoms. But if I tried to return to full time work I’m sure that would change
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Zero positive symptoms, mild negatives and cognitives. On minimum effective dosage. Able to work full time but have opted for part time as a precaution.
I wanted really bad to get better. More than Rocky Balboa wanted to beat the tall Russian boxer.
Of course, simply wanting it is not enough. But it’s a must.
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I still need meds
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I feel fully recovered on fluphenazine. makes me very happy to say I have no side effects from the meds and I lost all my weight on this med…yay for meds.
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I have no positive symptoms on zyprexa. I will need to take APs my whole life.
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No. I haven’t hallucinated (I think) for several years but I still get tripped out on delusions from time to time. As for my negatives… particularly disorganized thinking, getting manic about ideas and lack of motivation and general feeling of being down… all that is a struggle. I doubt that full recovery is possible.
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