I have had psychosis for 10 months and I don’t have delusions, I have no cognitive symptoms, and I have good insight into my illness. Am I lucky that my illness seems less severe? Does this mean I have a better chance at recovery?
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What are your symptoms?
Yes, that’s great you much insight into your illness. And without delusions your already halfway to a full recovery
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@Moonwalker I hear voices that are commanding and disrespectful. I have low motivation. That’s it.
Do you mostly have hallucinations? I am the opposite; my delusions are more prominent than my hallucinations, except for the 2 weeks leading up to my last hospitalization. Then I was less delusional and more hallucinationy. Though they weren’t “real” hallucinations, they were mostly in my thoughts.
Yes I just get hallucinations. And I know they aren’t real persons. I don’t know what a delusion would be like.
What meds do you take? 
Those symptoms can be severe as they were in my case. If your on the right medication the voices can go away. Motivation may not come back, idk. You seem to say your symptoms are mild so that’s a huge plus. I spent a period of time being catatonic from dealing with the voices, and talking to a radiator
The voices symptom is pretty bad at times but I only hear two voices and one of them is mean.
@GrayBear Invega Sustenna 234 mg injection but I’m switching my meds soon because Invega only works 3/4 of the time.
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I wouldn’t switch, it took me 3 years on invega for the voices to go away, but they did.
Are you having bad side effects? What are they?
The side effects I don’t like about Invega is the massive weight gain I’ve experienced and sexual dysfunction. Two things I find it hard to live with. I’m thinking of switching to Latuda. When you say it took 3 years on Invega for the voices to go away do you mean it took 3 years for Invega to mask the voices or the voices went away permanently?
I’m still on invega year 5 and sometimes I hear them at night. I believe the voices are always living out there somewhere
Well, be careful that it’s not a delusion that you don’t get delusions. What happens if you challenge your lack of motivation?
My problem is that I believe people are following me, and I can hear what they say to me. A lot do not like me and tell me that I am dying soon. I can hear their comments and I don’t know how I can hear them.
@Skatchatoon, I’m the one with the mild case. (When I was younger it used to be severe). I only hear voices occasionally and since they are usually quiet and make no sense they don’t bother me at all. The occasional hallucinatory music I hear isn’t bothersome either.
I also get delusions of reference in the form of messages from Gd and these are not only not bothersome, they are often helpful.
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