If in the future your schizophrenia was cured due to medical advances, would you even be the same person? Wouldn’t you become someone else totally different? Would it not be the death of one person and the birth of another?
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I’ve remained the same person my whole life. My personality did not change, my perception changed.
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No. I’d be the same person but hopefully I’d have some better energy. I wouldn’t experience side effects and I’d be able to live life like a normal person…Just twenty years too late!
You pay a price for everything but I’d take that if it meant that every single person who’d develop this disorder wouldn’t…I’d like that very much!
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No I would be normal , fun and outgoing.
sZ is dogshit man
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I think I would be the same. I still have weird sensory things and stuff that have had nothing to do with that that would still affect me. I would maybe experience less depressive behavior and be more functional, which would be great. 
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My personality traits are pretty solid I think. The only thing that would change would be I wouldn’t be sick anymore. So my suffering would be less. Which means I could live life to my full potential if I wanted to.
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I’d be the same. Except I would be able to stop the meds. Lose some weight, lose my benefits. How do you find a job when you haven’t worked for about 20 years?
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No - no - and no.
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I am good toma…!!! Still lying on the bed…!!!
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I’d probably be the same person but living a normal life.
No, schizophrenia is a debilitating disease. My past experiences and knowledge would still be the same.
Not sure where this question is leading to but probably not.
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Sometimes I think that the moody and angry person I was when I took Latuda for a few months and had no voices would be who I am. He was a scary guy.
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If sz was cured i would have no gov support money and i would be in trouble. I like the layed back life of sz.
If i got cured i would have to stop laying around and i would have to go to work.
Life would have less quality cause i think sitting by the dest from 9-5pm is wasted life.
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No, I would not be the same person. I would shower and change my clothes everyday. I would be working as an R.N. and my precious son would still be alive. And I would not be living in a senior care home. I would be living in my own house and I would still be driving a car. And I would probably have way more money in the bank than I do now.
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I’m only like half sz…anyway, I didn’t accept my diagnoses for years and remained untreated. I don’t think it would be much of a ego death for me. the worst part would be having to go back to work. this is a good life. I got all the time in the world for things like hobbies and I’m not stressed
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If I was a normal person, I wouldn’t be toying around with low stress jobs and be determined to stay in Hawaii. I would go for an ideal job situation like a computer programmer or a professor or any other job that requires a higher education. Would my life be any better, idk. My parents currently help me out with finances and I have made friends and enjoy this new modest life. But my parents are so burdened… They want me to work so badly. They are taking my illness way worse than I am. I have come to terms with the fact that though I had a very promising life before the illness, I can live as a disabled person as well. I just plan to do my best in comparison to myself and to other people in my position…
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I changed when I got sz and when the meds have me all their side effects. I think if the negatives and positives went away and I didn’t have to take meds anymore I’d be more the person I am now than the one I used to be.
But, also, I’m older and not a dumb teenager anymore. My interests changed as I got older more than because of the sz.
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It is weird but I just want to add that I seem to relate more to treated people with bipolar than I do to people with sz… I have almost no noticeable negative symptoms and just have mild problems with mood and moderate problems adjusting to stress… So I feel like it is not a struggle for me to have a normal day. I used to have negative symptoms and needed to “work really hard” to have a good day but now I only have cognitive and mood symptoms. So it is like someone who can’t work because of bipolar but can still find happiness quite effortlessly.
Idk why I bring this up.
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If my SZ were cured (I feel like I’m on the path of getting cured, with the alkaline diet approach), I would be a much more active, energetic person.
My SZ makes me want to laze around and waste time since my head hurts too damned much to concentrate.
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