the old understanding in psychiatry was that sz gets progressively worse. the new understanding is that if you keep on medication, most gradually get better, with sporadic symptoms maybe.
so do those with sz have much psychosis in their forties and fifties and sixties and beyond?
the ages where it usually begins is young adulthood, so i always wondered about later life.
what are your all’s experiences who are older?
I’m interested as well.
Especially if someone’s negative symptoms have improved, and they’re not going to ask money for how they think they improved.
Screw people who think they’re going to cash in on their “ticket” to ending this bs.
I just turned 60 in May of this year. I’m one of the lucky ones who is symptom free on medication. The summer a year or two ago, I started hearing a voice occasionally. My pdoc upped my Risperidone 1mg and the voice went away.
I eventually will fully treat my schizophrenia, rheumatoid arthritis and chronic headache, and will blog about it thoroughly. I may have to use affiliate marketing links to cover hosting costs though, but I don’t see it as some runaway success idea.
People want credentials before they follow medical advice, and all I have are anecdotes and study links.
I am 50 and get psychotic episodes. When i go to the hospital to get help they send me away. Maybe cause I don’t get violent or abusive anymore, not even assertive. It’s all a delusion. Face it. What they going to do? Martyr me with medication? I just butter there jokes.
Hopefully better!!!
I read that a schizophrenic have less chance to have rheumatoid arthtitis (dont know why bit i read it in two different medicine books). I’m sorry you have it. Wish you the best.
Do u take any AP?
I was diagnosed at 38. I’m nearly 50 now. Once I got on the right med I was psychosis free and stable. Getting on the right med for you is the key. It doesn’t matter what age you are.
Before 38, did you visit a pdoc? What pdoc said about your mental health when you had 20’s ?
It’s so late to have a diagnosis like sz. I thought it was not possible
As my doctor explained it to me, you reach a peak of positive symptoms around age 45-50, when they begin to slow down and more negative symptoms take over. As a general rule.
When I was 19 I visited a psychiatrist. They diagnosed me with depression. Sometimes the start of schizophrenia looks like depression.
I didn’t take antidepressant meds and just went on with my life.
I got worse inch by inch, year by year. It came to a head when I was 38. I was involuntarily hospitalized.
When psychosis first occurs you don’t know what is happening but experience and the right medication all help in later life to avoid meltdowns. I think sz is degenerative if not treated but meds and knowing your triggers can mean a long psychosis-free later life.
I don’t think it has so much to do with age as it does finding the right meds. It takes a while but once you find the right meds and dosages things improve.
I first had psychosis when I was 16/17. I am 32 now, and apart from stress related relapses I do pretty well.
My pdoc told me things should be more settled by time I reach my 40’s.
One thing for sure is the more you deal with this the better your insight gets and the more you understand things in a way that prevents you from getting as ill 
I read somewhere that 80% of people with schizophrenia relapse within five years of treatment. I was diagnosed at age 26 in 2012 and have been hospitalized 6 times and have had a major relapse at least once a year since. I’m 33 now. It seems my relapses are always around June or July.
I’ve become more easily relapsing in my 40s. My 30s were much better on the same meds.
I don’t know why I’m less protected from psychosis now.
I hope things settle down in my late 40s
Ive had it my whole life it peaked when I was 15/16 it’s seemed to gradually improve ever since now I’m 25 and though I still have symptoms theyre manageable
SZ is a neurological disorder. It is not a neurodegenerative disease. It does not get worse.
One is lack of logic, and the other one is lack of improvement.
i was diagnosed age 18 with long term psychosis and am now 45
my positive symptoms psychosis peaked with 2 yrs out of 3 spent in psychotic state age 30ish
I’m now 45 and haven’t been psychotic for longer than a day or so in 13 years
I’m on the right med i guess
negative symptoms seem to be improving in a way as well although I don’t really track these