Hey y’all
It seems that antisense mRNA therapy is most promising. Google it and see what the future holds.
Source: a scientist who is now a researcher at the Mayo clinic and a B+ in his class.
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I’m old school I believe it’s all repressed memories. Convince me otherwise! I’m extremely happy with my tdoc. Seems somehow I’ve ended up with one of the best therapists here to deal with it also.
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How many diseases really have cures, think about it? Auto-immune disorders don’t, viruses not really, cancer sometimes, diabetes no. I am hoping for better treatments in my lifetime, a cure; even amongst scientists theres overarching doubt about a cure for sz.
They don’'t even know the cause of schizophrenia, think they have to figure that out first and then work on a cure.
I read that anti-psychotics were a chance discovery, the first one was originally developed as a pain reliever (If i remember right) and it just happened to reduce the positive symptoms of psychosis.
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Yes you’re right Prospero, they were discovered serendipitously, in the 1950s. Since then we’ve barely managed to understand why they work, but no other breakthrough has taken place, with the possible exception of clozapine.
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Once they know the cause it will more easy to find cure…C4 was their latest breakthrough…
it will take time…!!! hope to get cure before 20 years…!!!
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I don’t want to be cured though…
All we’ve ever been able to do is treat the symptoms. I’ll be dead before they find a cure. It is good that they are mapping the brain, though.
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There’s an article in NIMH web site by Tom Insel from 2003 that says schizophrenia should be curable in ten years. Well it’s now been almost 14 and I don’t think it’s possible. I think they’ll be able to fix some of the symptoms but not the whole illness. Who knows, they’ve got some pretty amazing technology and a lot of people are working on it so maybe if it weren’t curable they wouldn’t be spending so much time and effort on it.
not in my lifetime (i’m 20) just give up and accept ur diagnosis.
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I asked my therapist this question once, she told me they may never find an effective cure because there is more money made treating it for 20 plus years than there is in curing it.
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It’s starting to sound like the AIDS virus.
I asked someone about that though and they said that the finders of a cure would make so much money that that would be incentive
Then why are you participating on a recovery-oriented Website?
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You’re lucky. Just watch they’ll find something that changes the game and I’ll be in my 70’s
They say this illness is not a split personality one. But at different times I have different thoughts on things. The idea of a cure is one of them. At times I hope that a cure can be found for potential future generations. At other times I sulk because I’m not likely to be one of them.
Realistically, I don’t think there will be a cure during my lifetime. I am hopeful about better treatment in terms of medications and options. From what I understand things have been steadily improving. We’re not being burned at a stake for being witches anymore.
@shutterbug because I like to read stories of others with similar issues and i like to blog about a little of my own life. Also to post about some difficulties or successes I face certain days.
So you prefer to witness others’ pain and misery, and to try to overcome impossible obstacles instead of witnessing the relief of the end of that pain and misery?
@minnii what? 1515
You said you don’t want a cure because you like to read about others’ issues and blog about your own.