Of sz/sza ? Anyone doing great on meds etc?
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I’m doing great. 5 or so years no psychotic break.
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Welcome back. 
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Thankyou @GrayBear
I feel hungover today from lack of sleeping but im deep thinking rn
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Dreamer are you cured then now
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I seem to have episodes every year but off meds in the community I’m usually in remission.
Only when the insomnia hits do I have a psychotic episode.
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Yes I’m doing well, but I am not cured. I have ongoing symptoms, which are managed through a low dose of meds and techniques I learned in therapy. I am mostly enjoying my life.
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2years psychosis free. Yet to have meaningful/gainful employment
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I might be in recovery. Can’t say. Based on my history, a new pdoc still recently diagnosed me SZA, Depressive Type. I haven’t been an inpatient since 2008, but have been psychotic at least twice since then, with voices and delusions. I’ve just been able to endure it at home alone with only medication. Depression is still a problem. This website has helped me:
If by cured you mean no meds no. But I don’t have positives.
I recovered from a psychotic break about 6 years ago. I struggled a lot for about 5 years, but the last year I’ve had no positive symptoms. with the help of meds of course!
I am in recovery. I haven’t had any significant symptoms/episodes in years, except for the week I couldn’t afford my meds.
I’m on 10mg Olanzapine, and aside from making me very fat, it has worked wonders
I have daily positive and negative symptoms. But I’m working on just being able to function the most I can with the these symptoms. I am recovering a bit of functioning. It’s not great but it’s better than nothing.
I am stable on medication and consider myself in recovery. Finding the correct medication cocktail and therapy have gotten me to heights I could not have imagined fifteen years ago. Keep strong, think positively, and listen to your healthcare providers.
Nobody can tell I’m ill unless I tell them.
No mania, No psychosis, On Off mild depression but my OCD symptoms are off the charts!
I do not have any symptoms now. I am not taking meds. I am doing good job wise: touch wood. Only thing that is missing in life is an understanding person. If there is one person in this world who is physically with me can understand me without judging me or not thinking bad about my past then my life is complete.
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@Melomaniac I’m sorry noone irl can be forgiving or forget your past that sucks.
I wonder how you managed to get down the recovery road and off meds. I would love to be where you are with that. It seems you are working hard and able to cope better. Any helpful tips would be great appreciated
Soz i can’t reply to everyone im just exhausted
I think maybe because of love. There was one person who showed love for me like that I never received in life. I am married to a different person now as I was mentally ill and financially weak. After so many episodes after episodes I found my core issue which was my teeth which no one acknowledged. I went to an extent where I got loan to fix it when I was jobless and everyone where against it that it would do nothing. Then after fixing I got better and got a job and now people in company respect me but my wife or relations or my brother are not still with my past behaviour keep noticing small things and blowing it up and saying they are in danger because of me.
I am still fighting because of the fact that there was one person in life who cared for me inspite of my sickness and tried to fight the best she can.
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What do you mean “in recovery”?
Like, being stable ? Going to therapy ?
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