I am positive about my illness. I am way better than at my worst days. (Which were 2016-2017)
But… one woman today said - it almost always got worse. And I am thinking… actually, what if ? I know we are more suicidal and live less (because of certain physical diseases). But does symptoms for everyone gets worse with age ?
What is your experience? Do you got worse? How long you have SZA? Is it truth most of us get worse? 
feeling paranoid now… i am happy because my life last few years is getting better. ((In some aspects)) and I am worried that after 10-20 years I will be only psychotic or way worse.
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I’ve heard that it gets better as you get older. In my experience it just gets worse. I’m only 25 though.
It’s been the same for me since I got on Abilify 9 years ago. No better no worse.
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Stay strong.
What my doctor says - it sometimes will be better sometimes will be worse. I believe you will get better☺️
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No not at all, I got better over the years. First two I was delusional, these days most of my problems are residual.
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The positive symptoms as a whole usually get better with time but the negatives like avolition and cognition gets worse, usually.
This is not always the case with everyone.
It varies from individual to individual
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Also on ablify.
Well sometimes I think, am I better or am I the same. (Last 5 years when I am more or less stable and not psychotic)
Because some aspects now are better, for example relationships. But some, like concentration sometimes seems worse.
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What dose are you on ? I’m on 15mg.
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Also on 15mg last four or five months. 
Ablify works best for me…
My ablify dosage varies, sometimes I am on 10mg and sometimes on highest dose, 30mg
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I started out on 10mg, but it wasn’t enough, 15mg seems to be ok.
Abilify is a good med.
There’s some evidence that it doesn’t stop working like other meds.
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Can I ask how long you feel better ?
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And its not the most expensive one.
And I believe ablify ended my horror with first episode psychosis… I tried lots of medication - from olanzapine to quetiapine.
I also tried cariprazine - which is reaaally expensive and it was not so helpful as ablify.
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How long it took? Two years from when it started. How long I have been feeling better, about 5 years now. I have hallucinations but no delusion or paranoia, I mostly ignore my voices and sometimes I have days without voices.
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I don’t think my SZ has gotten better or worse. I have become so much better at managing it that I can pass as normal when needed and I consistently function at high levels.
DXed at 24. 54 now.
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It’s gotten better for me. I have better cognition, no positive symptoms to speak of, and I was able to reduce my AP dose.
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Great! Similar case
My psychosis took for ~ 1.5 year
And now better for almost 5 years. Sometimes I have symptoms, but overall I am… way better than during worst days
During worst days I was almost not able to say or write any logical sentence 
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The first six years when I was sick were the worst from 2013 until 2019. They were really bad to the point I tried to kill myself in 2015. I ended up surviving that suicide attempt and going to the psych ward and getting diagnosed with schizophrenia and put on meds but for the next few years I would stop taking my meds because I’d feel better then have to go back to the psych ward. In 2019 I asked for an injection and got put on Invega Sustenna and gradually improved. My life is much better now.
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İ m with this illness since 23 years.i would say worst was when i was 21 to 26 years old.after that my diagnosis became to residual sz
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I got diagnosed with SZA in 2010 and the first 6 years were chaotic but things have settled since then.
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I’ve had it for 5 years and I’m almost recovered fully now, so it may had just been a good stint of psychosis, but I would most of us get better over time according to statistics if you choose to believe
I would say we usually do though, be rare if u had the insidious kind, which gets worse.
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