I seriously thought everyone on meds made a full recovery like me. But my psychiatrist is like only 20% makes a full recovery.
I just can’t imagine having symptoms while on meds that’s so hellish.
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■■■■■■■■ everyone can recover
You have to put effort and have faith believe in recovery, and change your thoughts
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I’m told I’m still delusional and I take my meds religiously. I have alarms reminding me and everything
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I take the max dose of Invega and still hear voices.
No major delusions though.
I hope all is well.
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I’m on Abilify maintena 400mg monthly shot. Still hear voices basically all the time.
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I don’t hallucinate visually or auditory, but have trouble with fiction/reality testing, I guess. I blend fiction with reality and tend to believe in fiction.
I have delusions, no energy, no motivation, and am fat.
I also have cognitive decline. That’s about it. Those are my main complaints here.
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on my meds i’m doing better but i can’t live a normal life anymore. I don’t mind it as i made peace with it but i don’t expect a full recovery anymore.
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I’m hoping to work some day, get healthier (lose weight), and get my associates some day.
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I always wonder what the definition of a full recovery is. If you still need meds is that really a “full recovery”? I don’t think there’s such a thing as a full recovery. If you’re going to use the word full doesn’t that imply that you are better in every way which means no meds and full functioning? And doesn’t full functioning imply functioning as good as you were before you got sick? Who does that?
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That’s my life 24/7. I can handle the symptoms through CBT, but I need the meds to maintain insight. I take enough APs to maintain insight but not enough to wipe out my positives as that needs such a high dose I can’t function at a job. I have had to find that sweet spot.
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I’m not trying to be negative here but that’s false. not everyone could fully recover from schizophrenia there are those who are fully treatment resistant and no amount of meds can make them gain their insight.
Yes they can… don’t make them hopeless
Full recovery doesn’t exist with SZ/SZA but one can experience stability of some sort through medication management usually.
Secondary treatment measures like therapy, diet and exercise vastly help as well.
I mean unless some treatment resistant med comes along that are way more effective then current treatments That’s really the only hope they really have, anyways, I don’t have to worry about them losing hope form my comments they probably don’t even know they’re ill since they never gained insight in the first place.
the meds alone would make that pretty impossible for most people even if the meds completely solved them from sz.
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This why I visit this forum to remind me that things could be alot worse for me as bad that may sound.
I’ve heard of something called dopamine supersensitivity from antipsychotics… It makes us super sensitive to dopamine if we come off so that the chance of relapse goes up if coming off. It sucks…
But it’s still better to go on the antipsychotic in the first place because on it, it helps, and stops me from doing things that put me and perhaps others at risk.
Idk if everyone becomes dopamine supersensitive tho
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In truth, there is no coming off of meds once you get schizophrenia. The only way you can seemingly fully recover is via therapy and being able to reason with the delusions to a point where you can function to a point of near normalcy. Schizophrenia is life long.
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I had a video assessment with a pdoc on Monday re the negligence claim. I think he was sceptical/surprised that I had a schizoaffective/schizophrenia diagnosis. I’ll have occasional ,fleeting, thoughts that aren’t exactly normal, but they’re not thoughts I have an urgent need to express.Socially I’m quite impaired. How much is due to the sz/sz-a and how much the ASD is debatable. I have zero friends. I do have a caring and loving chosen family.
Functioning wise I have quite a lot of support. My adaptive functioning is definitely less than would reasonably be expected given my level of intelligence. That’s not unusual with ASD.
My executive functioning,especially organising and planning, sucks big time. You’d have to interact with me F2F over a day or so to fully notice that I have such a deficit. EF difficulties can be experienced by those at all intelligence levels.
Comparatively speaking I’m doing well, but what’s previously been mentioned doesn’t suggest full recovery, IMO.
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