My sza has gotten better over time. Although for the first eight years, I went untreated. And for the next 25 years, I wasn’t on the right meds or on the right dosages.
I can only speculate. Sometimes we don’t accept Schizophrenia either it be for what we are told about ourselves, or are in denial because of the stigma that the label brings to our lives. But regardless we have to understand, sometimes our understanding is flawed and we need to be open to criticism and another point of view, especially if it is from someone who is highly trained in a certain field. Not saying ones own opinion is wrong… I’m rambling. I guess what I’m saying is we need to open ourselves, accept feedback with doubt and open arms. I don’t know lol. Anyway was that what you were asking?
@SkinnyMe Have you gotten the right medicine now? I hope it gets better, if it’s not already.
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Thanks @anon97970229 thanks for taking the time to talk to me
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Yes, @anon97970229, I’m on the right meds now. Finally, after waiting 33 years.
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Yes it was the meds. For sure. No question.
@SkinnyMe Wow, long time. I’m glad you are doing better, now.
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Yes, @anon97970229, the psychiatric medication technology just wasn’t advanced enough in the 80’s and 90’s and millenium for me, back in the day.
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@SkinnyMe wow, time sure do change. I hope progress continues throught out this century.
I’ve gotten better over the years. My hormones are done and there’s less stressors in my life now that I’m retired. My monthly cycle used to send me places I’d rather not have gone.
Nutcase
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Thanks. You realize everybody is waiting for a stupid joke, right?
“Yes, it was very rough and impossibly bad and I suffered as much as the next guy. It was hell but I always wished I was in the Navy so thanks.”
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are you from new york mam?
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I like your jokes @77nick77
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Are you trying to say medication you asked for and deemed necessary did nothing for you and you had to create your own coping skills? Then you’ve fallen off the mark especially all your posts nothing can help you.
Better. Worse. Better. Worse. So on and so on. I’m not sure
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It depends. I’ve been delusional and hearing voices and seeing things since I was 9. Until I was 14 I didn’t realize it wasn’t normal. It got worse until I started medication at age 23. I have been up and down since then. Changing medicine. I’m currently in a 3 month downfall. I just was put on a new medicine two days ago and taken off one. All its done so far is increase my insomnia.
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Way better. It’s come at a cost for sure. Not as smart for sure but no more racing thoughts. I can sleep at night rather than obsess about things.
I often wonder from previous to meds…is this what normal people think like?? If so I would have liked to have had the chance to live naturally like this without the pills but it’s not my lot in life it seems!
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my symptoms went from a bad paranoia with full blown psychosis… not including my first psychosis the 2 and 3rd times it took 6 weeks of stabilising in hospital a couple of times
Then around 30 i came off my meds… worst mistake of my life i was off the scale unwell for 9 months then a year later without coming off meds it happened again and my full blown schizophrenia had me in hospital for 288 days
my illness got a hell of a lot worse because i took 6 months off meds thinking all the yoga etc had healed me
The reason i know i got worse is because i never used to understand what my sister was going on about although we both had sz… hers was 2x as bad as mine…
A few years after she died i had the same symptoms she had described and
it was like going up to level 2 schizophrenia
now on good strong meds and i have been stable for 13 years
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If I compare myself now to my 16 year old self, I am doing better than anyone could have ever dreamed of. I didn’t get truly better until about 25, then had more relapses and the last year has been really good with no hospital visits. I am 32 now
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from 26 tp 28 it was awful distressing…then got easy from 29 to 32 and then from 32 to 42 bad agin but age 43 is doing better, but fingers crossed
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It has been about 10 years since I was first diagnosed. The first 5 years were tough. I wasn’t exactly compliant with medication. I was first placed on injections. The first two years I was heavily medicated with an injection and some tablets that would dissolve under the tongue. After the first two years, I switched medication and was compliant. Still was on injections. After the first five years I grew more experienced in dealing with the illness.
I wouldn’t say it got easier as much as I’d say I learned how to better live and cope with the illness. Somewhere around the 6th year I realized that the first few years I just wasn’t on medications I responded well to. After switching to a different medication, I began to feel more stability. By the 7th year I had switched to pills as opposed to injections.
Feeling stable I tried life without medication (with the blessings of a psychiatrist) for around 18 months or so. I did fairly well and returned to college. Unfortunately, somewhere down the road I lost touch with reality again and ended up being hospitalized. Since then I’ve been back on a medication that has proven to work best for me. All in all, I’d say 8t has not worsened but being off meds for 18 months, I do feel like my brain was fried during psychosis. Slowly I’ve been recovering from that.
My story isn’t necessarily inspiring or successful but at the very least I have tried to be a good person.
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