Asking to see if anyone has been through this.
I have gotten better although I was told I wouldn’t improve.
For me it was more medication that made the difference. I wasn’t on the right dosage the first several years.
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@TomCat That is good, man. I’m glad it got better.
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Same. I was told I’d be trapped as low-functioning and unable to care for myself for the rest of my life. Thank God for my AA friends who pushed me towards recovery when I believed it was beyond me. They saved me.
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I’ve gone from being a basket case to being stable. It improves for a lot of people.
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Medication has helped and knowing my limits so I don’t get over stressed.
Stop drinking alcohol made the biggest difference.
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I was diagnosed in 2018. But I was hearing voices from 2017. I can say it has certainly gotten better for me. Iv been voice free since January (except for a few faint voices) and the quality of life I have now compared to back then is insurmountable
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I really can’t tell.
Delusions have multiplied, and now I have 9 voices, always increasing.
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my understanding is that for most people, they get better. but that’s a newer understanding. the old framework is that people get worse or make no progress.
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Some things have some things haven’t. When I was little I had auditory hallucinations and very vivid visual ones. As I got older I stopped get auditory hallucinations outside of sleep and my visual ones became less intense but then picked up a little bit when I reached my 20’s. Everything else did definitely get worse as I got older. However, my coping skills got better over time so I was better able to manage.
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Mine got much worse in my teens but now I’m in my twenties and doing much better.
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Mine got much worse over the course of a couple years but since I started meds I have been completely fine.
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@everhopeful was it the medicine that made it better?
@Om_Sadasiva I understand, for me, overtime, has been a mixed feeling of denial and acceptance.
@Anna I consider coping skills an essential tool in recovery for Schizophrenia.
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At age 20 I was locked up in the hospital for 8 months. I was in 5 or 6 hospitals around that time. I’m 58 now and I’m sitting in my car on lunch break from my job chewing on a blueberry bagel and feeling great and pondering the mysteries of life. I got extra money to spend and plenty of food at my nice apartment.
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I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1985, and I still have symptoms of the illness. Overall, I think my symptoms have improved, but I attribute that, for the most part, to my environment improving.
It’s a long story, but my environment improved greatly in 2012. I also entered into a relationship that year and got a pet (my first pet at age 48). And I started taking care of my mother (who is very sick now (she was living with my sister)). So for the first time in my life I had to care about someone/something other than myself.
I still feel uncomfortable going outside of my house (I have this feeling that people are looking/judging me), and I have difficulty taking a shower. I don’t think I’ll ever be comfortable doing certain things, so I have to push myself, no way around it. I’ve become comfortable being uncomfortable; I have to embrace the suck. That’s okay, because that’s where the growth happens.
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I was diagnosed in 2018 and at that time was hearing voices that seemed to be coming from my ceiling. It has definitely gotten much worse where I am now having more tactile hallucinations.
@Amisz Did the medication help to make your voices go away, or do you know what it was?
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Medication made them faint for a few days at first but then they came back. I then increased meds and they disappeared! Believe me I’m proof that the meds work you just need to find the right one. Wishing you well 
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@77nick77 sounds like you have had a rough ride. That sounds very admirable real happy to hear, man.
@anon17132524 Sounds like you made major improvements. I understand where you are coming from. Sometimes I even don’t believe I’m sick, lol. Exactly growth is made out of your comfort zone. Wishin you the best!
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