And not take meds ? Maybe it heals over time.
I’ve noticed there are people on this forum not taking meds.
Maybe I don’t need to aswell. Maybe I can be med free
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Dunno… i think maximum szphernic needs medication for life time… why dont u ask ur pdoc… maybe she can accept. . Holy cow…!!!
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I’m not on an antipsychotic right now but I’m endlessly trying to find one. If I could get my psychosis under control my life would be perfect. Right now I never know when stress or some other trigger is going to set off my psychosis and I could be tortured by demons. My psychosis symptoms are so bad they gave me ptsd. I feel I can’t ever really recover from that until I become fully stable there because I have no sense of safety and ability to say things won’t happen again right now.
I’m not on an AP, but I want to be. It is horrible to live with uncontrolled psychosis. I’m trying vraylar next.
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They need them but they dont admit it. Dont imitate them
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It is very possible but most schizophrenics off meds needed to be permanently hospitalized in asylums. What you see here are a small subset of high functioning people, and even considering that; people off meds here are not doing very good.
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I think it depends on whether you think people who can function without meds are actually schizophrenic or were misdiagnosed. Some say yes and others say no. I would say some people can cope without meds due to the remission of symptoms whereas for others what keeps their symptoms at bay is taking the meds. Stop taking the meds and a relapse occurs.
Some people may fit the criteria for schizophrenia at one point but progress to being well or to a less severe diagnosis.
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I went off meds for five years but then I relapsed and had to resume taking meds again. Since then (2012) I’ve been on meds. When I tried to taper off them (several times) I just got sick again. I doubt I can go off meds again. I will have too many off days without meds.
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I think it’s harder than taking meds. People who don’t take meds seem to have a rougher time. It seems like a small minority can function well without taking meds. @Hedgehog comes to mind. But some people have no choice they are med-resistant. Other people stop their meds and relapse a month, 6 months or a year later. It seems the majority relapse in my experience.
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You’d be questioning diagnosis. It just doesn’t happen and it’d be outside normal boundaries.
You’ve got to think. How many are diagnosed and don’t use message boards. There’s an crazy amount of people we don’t see on here!
I think the criteria to join is basically a psychotic disorder or a period of psychosis. It’s funny how you can pick those folk who’ve had neither!
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That’s a tricky one for me maybe reflecting a degree of lack of insight- I just don’t know. At various points described as having ‘psychotic symptoms’ with a risk history mentioning delusions. The thing is I read some posts here and think “Well I wasn’t like that. Wasn’t that psychotic”
Then I think would they put you on a depot if you weren’t prone to or susceptible to psychotic thinking ? For me my thinking tends to go haywire with stress ie my ability to be rational takes a nose dive.
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