Have your symptoms improved or worsened as time is going by [POLL]

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  • My symptoms got better
  • My symptoms got worse
  • It is progressive
  • It’s about the same as the first time it started

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Once I got on abilify my symptoms have been stable/the same for 6 years.

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Easier for me to handle while on meds. I’ve gotten better since going on them. Although it’s not perfect, it helped

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I’m afraid to try a new antipsychotic but I’m not doing well. I have very severe positive symptoms on meds. My illness is progressive, I remember when I recovered in 2012, I was fine, I went to school, I socialized a lot. I don’t know if it’s from taking anti-psychotic for more than 10 years but I can’t figure out a way to fix my racing thoughts/intrusive thoughts.

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better!!!

but sometimes everything just comes crashing down in one moment

so it is hard to tell

in my mind though, things are better

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My mental health has been good this year.

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I was severely ill for 33 years and treatment resistant. Then, 4 years ago, my pdoc put me on three AP’s. That changed everything. All my positive symptoms disappeared. My suicidality disappeared too. I was left with negative and cognitive symptoms alone.

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Progressive but good. I think it’s a combination of age and being on a regime for a long time. I have way less paranoia and depression and I don’t do too badly. I do live a low stressed lifestyle too which does help…so progressively to the better for me.

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It got worse a few years after my first hospitalisation it got much worse and lasted a few years.voices etc

Then itgog better and was better a while and then I had another break down with delusions.no voices this time thankfully.

After medication increased it stopped.

Now I’m well thankfully.

Hope I don’t have another episode.

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My voices have gotten much worse. They were always mean but used to be nice sometimes. Now, if they are ever nice, they call me a sucker for believing them.

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It got worse then better then worse then better and so on. It’s a cycle.

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I get worse as I age, not sure why

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That is a bit of a simplified answer. Do I legitimately think my symptoms just magically got better? No. I think I learned how to manage them better as well as found good medication and this has drastically reduced the severity and frequency of my symptoms.

Of course they are doing better as opposed to when I was a teenager and getting 3-5 hrs of sleep a night and didn’t know what psychosis was and had no form of mental or emotional support no meds nothing.

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