I see nothing wrong with needing medication for life.
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Needless to say, we have a LONG way to go with modern psychiatry. These people need to level up, even us, in understanding schizophrenia & how to treat it properly.
CBT is my route.
What Iād do is take them for another year then go back to your doctor again to discuss it.
Honestly bro, I would like to see how you are doing in a year. A lot of people relapse off meds months later. Iām cheering for you though.
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Iām givinā it my best. Thanks. Yes, come the beginning of 2016 I will have a good idea of how I am doing. I am still withdrawing from my last Abilify shot, which would have been today but I have concluded APās donāt work for me. So, the doctor said Iād be looking for about three months before itās fully out of my system.
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Fair enough. Iām social by nature, and I like everyone knowing my business. I work through problems by talking them through over and over. The more people I can do that with, the better I feel.
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it is different in australia. 
i donāt do medsā¦
take care 
Are you an extrovert ? Iām an introvert. I tend to solve my problems internally. I think itās good to let things out.
What do you do at a high school reunion? Do you make an announcement or tell them frankly individually that your sz. It will make me very uncomfortable I would just not go. You tell me what would you do. If you have not seen these people for a long while. I like to enjoy dancing with long lost freinds.
Imagine you didnāt have sz and instead you had, say, epilepsy and it prevented you from working - would you then feel so compelled to justify yourself? Youāre not on trial, you donāt have to explain, no-one is judging you. Go to the reunion and bear in mind that half of what you hear from the others there will be grossly exaggerated to make it look like theyāve done well.
$hit wrong post hahahahahahahahahahaha
I am an extreme extrovert. I spend all day talking to people and visiting my friends, then I come home and spend tons of time on here.
I feel like weāre hijacking this thread, so I made another one here.
I hate to play devils advocate here. But if it were heart disease or diabetes you wouldnāt go off youāre meds. I dislike medication but I have this life long illness so Iāve come to accept the medication that comes with it. Medication and therapy and self work are par for the course to me. Just sayingā¦
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Iāve had meds since 2010. Not coming off them anytime soon. Pdoc told me Iāll need them for a very very long time. Tried to come off twice. Disaster.