Does it take a long time or am I permanently cognitively disabled??
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It takes a long time usually unfortunately. Maybe yours is mild though.
Good luck. 
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It happened in November
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If SZ was from drug abuse it will likely disappear.
If not, psychosis positive symptoms respond well to medication. However there is no medication for negative and cognitive symptoms. Presence of these symptoms depends on the severity of SZ. Some only have positive symptoms and they return to predisease state with medications. Others experience negative and cognitive symptoms for life unless they find a cure.
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I have positive, negative and cognitive symptoms. I don’t experience any serious positive symptoms with working meds.
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I used to have negatives and cognitive but I don’t have them much anymore so they can get better.
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I’ve been told it takes a long time! I have been recovering since September 2018 and am still noticing improvement as time goes by. I was also psychotic for about three years, though.
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How bad was your paranoia and do you still have delusions?
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It took me between 1.5 and 2 years after my first psychotic break before I responded well to treatment and the delusions and paranoia faded. The voices in my head didn’t go away, but they got a lot nicer… I don’t get bullied much anymore by them. I still have trouble focusing and concentrating though, but it’s not as bad as it used to be. I can drive again without swerving or hitting something, and I can remember things more easily. I’m not 100% but I’d say I’ve improved.
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How did you get ride of them? For me they improved slightly with Abilify but I had bad side effects like gambling, hypersexuality, drug use and compulsive shopping. I told my psychiatrist and he decided to switched me to Latuda; no more of these issues but negative and cognitive symptoms worsened. He said often SZs have depression and they improve sometimes without or with antidepressants. I tried antidepressants but they didn’t change anything.
He told me that some SZs have negative symptoms not related to depression and they don’t get better with meds. Improvements in positive symptoms slightly improve other symptoms so maybe that’s why you got better or maybe you had depression.
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The Psychaiatrist thought it was depression. I thought it was negative symptoms. I didn’t really do anything. They just got better with time but took years and now I don’t feel I have them anymore.
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it’s been 19 years and i’m close to recovery. the past two decades has been frought with med non-compliance, illicit drug use (mj), hospitalizations (7-8x), unemployment (i’ve been employed about 70% of the time). I say I’m close to recovery due to the fact I am able to talk to others, people I know and strangers, without going nuts.
I don’t consider sz a ‘evolutionary’ disease, meaning you may not just phase out of it. I’ve struggled, persevered, and always tried to learn something through the tough times.
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I was using previous to may and that’s when it all started. Can it take a year to clear up?
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It took me 33 years to get over my psychosis.
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It took me 9 years to accept the fact that I am sick and to accept medication.
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About 12 years I think.
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The first two years were solid hell. After that I got slowly better and became stable. Then I had a relapse. It took me a year to get back to where I was. As recently as 10 years ago I had repeated, intense episodes that seemed would put me in the hospital. I’ve had the occasional episode but for the most part the symptoms are under control.
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You usually put a light note in your posts. You could write, professionally, hon.
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My first so psychotic break was in '04. It too me about 3 years to feel sort of normal again. But then about 3? years later I had another break and went downhill big time. Haven’t been the same since.
Honestly, i think it took me a year or so. There were a lot of cognitive issues that i struggled to get back into my control. Even today i’m not 100%.