I still don’t know what to do if I have schizophrenia… If I give it a try and I dont hear vocies after tapering off… Then there’s no chance of withdrawal too and i can make sure problem is solved.
But what if I hear again? Then I am schizophrenic. So I will have 2 options, take meds and bear the side effects for whole life meaning accepting that I need to stay in limits for my who life because they make me randomly so tried and sleepy that I hardly can perform well as I have potential also i get so tired during a day hardly can brush and its 16 years i have lost health of my teeth because of sleepiness of this med, although i am very attentive towards hygiene. I cannot drive too and many other things that need awareness as I havent till now…
Or, give it a try to see if I can deal with voices, which i never did before… maybe with voices i can live more happily who knows because voices i heard was not making me do something dangerous or so?! I never tried this because my family decided I should take med
There’s like a high percentage…like 20% or so who recover from 1st episode psychosis if that is what you’ve had. Indeed it may be higher but that is a conservative estimation.
Ultimately it’s about symptoms and function. If your losing your stuff daily and hearing voices non stop that tends to bite into your function. Same if your delusional. If your multi episodic then it’s usually meds as the best way to go with our current medical technology.
Well my psychiatrist said she has 2 types of patients. The compliant safer category and the risk taking category. She said I’m in the risk taking category because I choose not to take aps everyday. I have lots of good coping skills and insight though.
I have bipolar 1 with psychosis dx. It’s pretty similar to the schizoaffective bipolar type but I am pretty high functioning. So I’m probably not even a good example but more of an edge case example.
I still hear voices and get hallucinations but it’s pretty rare these days.
I have been on halol for 4 yrs then stopped i heard vocies for the first time so i thought i am crazy started antipsychs but abilify this time for 11 yrs or so…