Is psychosis permanent brain damage?

[anon10648258]

SZ explained in physical sense

SZ is not just a mental illness. It’s a brain disease and here’s why you shouldn’t be ashamed of having it. I’ve seen like 3 posts today about brain damage on this forum and was thinking of sharing what I know. Cognitive symptoms: happens in Parkinson’s, ALS and other neurological diseases like spastic paraplegia Laughing randomly/crying randomly: Happens in people with stroke, etc. Called pseudobulbar effect or pathological laughter Extrapyramidal symptoms from meds: ALS, demylinating conditions etc. Psychosis: MS, ALS, Huntington’s disease, adrenal crisis, dementia, Korsakoff syndrome, etc. Even a simple hormonal deficit or low vitamins can cause this. Many neurodegenerative diseases l…

@Aziz I basically summarized every symptom I know to its respective brain condition(s). I hope this gives you some answers to your question.

[VanDam]

exercise is probably the best way to negate or offset the brain damage incurred by schizophrenia and long-term use of antipsychotics.

[Aziz]

@anon67605327

Are you going to go back on the meds?

I already went back on meds end of 2016. I stopped meds from 2014 to 2016.

[Aziz]

@Bowens

most of the cognitive damage from Schizophrenia occurs prior to first episode psychosis

Exactly, I started having negative and cognitive symptoms 2-3yrs before my diagnosis and before being put on meds. I already posted a pubmed article here saying that 73% experience negative and cognitive symptoms during prodromal sz. But what causes these symptoms and decline in functioning lvl and cognition? Brain damage or abnormal brain since birth?

[anon67605327]

oh i see ok

@Aziz

@anon67605327

Are you going to go back on the meds?

I already went back on meds end of 2016. I stopped meds from 2014 to 2016.

[Bowens]

@Aziz

But what causes these symptoms and decline in functioning lvl and cognition? Brain damage or abnormal brain since birth?

Well, that’s a million dollar question isn’t it? Your basically asking what causes schizophrenia. A question no one has an answer to. If I had to guess though, If I had to pick out of those two, I would pick an abnormal brain since birth in most cases, which has a predisposition to developing sz. Some people develop sz because of brain injury though, so how do they fit in? Is it just a subclass of Sz? There are just a million questions that I can’t answer. I wish I had the answer to them all.

Edit: And what about twins, where one develops sz and the other doesn’t? Environment obviously plays a role. It’s just so hard to pin down the cause…