This is a tough one. It is possible to beat it a little bit of amounts or sometimes a pretty good amounts. Feel free to elaborate and share how you beat sz.
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Take the minimum amount of meds you can whilst keeping the symptoms under control and learn to ride out the bad times. I do really well and live a great life but still have my moments and breakthroughs. It just gets easier to deal with them as my meds are working pretty well for me.
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I beat it by not giving up.
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I don’t think it’s a question of beating it as much as learning how to live with it. It’s taken me a couple years to adjust but I think I can see the clouds clearing a little bit.
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When I switched to Abilify last summer, my pdoc started me on 5mg, the minimal dose, after being on 5mg Risperidal. I was hallucinating on that low of a dose. We upped it to 10 then 15mg, and I’m mostly symptom free now. So I’m pretty sure I’m taking the minimum dose for me.
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Well, I agree with @Bowens that you can’t really beat it. I guess in some ways you can but you can’t have a 100% victory over it, beating it to me would mean a 100% victory which I’m sure is impossible as most people will feel the effects of it through all their lives. Even if it lessens in old age, it will still affect you. Or the damage was done during the course of your life. That’s the negative part of it.
On the other hand, the positive part of it is like Bowens says, you can learn to live with it or have a life despite it. There’s usually a light at the end of the tunnel. I used to be severely ill. In and out of hospitals, heavily medicated, living in mental health housing with other schizophrenics or people with other mental illnesses. But I kind of always stayed in so called “normal” society, working, going to school, just moving freely around, going to parties and hanging out with friends. I felt the disease but lived my life despite it. I did what I could, I went through the numerous peaks and valleys. But with lots of help and hard work I can look back on some good times and experiences and look forward to more (though I’m pretty slowed down).
I’ve had my victories and defeats, my bad times. My low times. Drug addiction, relapse, poverty, being in debt, physical illness, trouble with the law, depression, despair, losing all my possessions, failures, etc. At the time, they hit me hard and seemed to last forever. But I pulled out of all of them and had not only many great times, but many great years. I will never completely overcome of it but lived a life despite of it. And I haven’t given up by a long shot. I’m just going through a lull in my life, just kind of cruising. Not doing a lot but still working, taking classes, cooking, getting out of the house and occasionally doing fun things. There’s always room for improvement but anybody could say that, schizophrenic or not.
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I do this to it…
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What I’m saying is if I persevere through it, with out ending it all…then I didn’t let sz make me end it all. You get beat by sz if you end it all.
Beating sz? NEVER GIVE UP!
I am totally helpless.
Psychosis does what it likes with me
With karate or a rocket launcher!
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You beat it by accepting it
Learning to live with it
and as in my case I was all over the place but I did marathon self counseling and got a grip over things
It wasn’t easy but it was worth it
Also turning a bit spiritual helped it
I am still fighting it but I am lot better than I was before
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With a stick.
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You got to take it day by day, week by week. Don’t compare yourself to others. Do what you feel comfortable. Set aims that are realistic and achievable.
That’s what I was going to say
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meds… i think only meds help really… and even then i don’t think it’s possible to beat it…
No beating sz for me, it get worse as I age, so meds till the end
one ingredient to my cure is, peace of mind