Well, that’s a phooey. I’m so sorry to hear that you’re still slipping. 
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The good news is that I’ve got a ton of insight when it comes to the voices. I can withstand a lot of crap from them thanks to Zen training and CBT exercises. I’ve never been hospitalized, not even during the ten years I went unmedicated, hoping to cure it without meds. I like to think I’m strong, but maybe I got lucky and it was just a fluke of chemicals not going totally haywire.
If I’m still hallucinating visuals, I can’t tell. They’ve always been seamless, unless very odd, and so I mostly can’t see them unless I ask someone if they’re there. Sometimes, I see flashing lights, or floating coloured lights, not related to blood pressure. Sometimes, I see shadow people, and dark motes of light.
My new psychiatrist wants me on Invega. I think I’ll decline, because I’ve heard of injections causing
permanent tremors and tics. The pills can cause them too, but more often they occur after being on AP pills for a long, long time. Anyway, as an artist, I don’t need a tremor.
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Good for you! You’ve won the most important battles and you’re going to win the war. That’s what you’ve just told me. Have faith and keep up hope.
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I will maybe recover from schizophrenia but never alcoholism so yesterday I drank some alcohol for the first time in two years and I didn’t feel drunk or good so I poured half a bottle white wine in the zink.
That is one of the main reasons why my meds can not get swapped with other brands.
I am so damned scared of getting drunk and becoming an alcoholics like my Dad was that Ill stay on my meds for the rest og my life.
I’m not recovering from either. I would say that both conditions are well-managed for me. You know what AA members call someone who thinks they have cured themselves?
Newcomer.
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Yes Ozzie exactly I’m am in recovery for both condition but will never get cured from any of them.
I want to add that I like AA very much as I spend 8 month of my life as the youngest member in Denmark from1992-1993.
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92 is a good year! My sobriety date is Feb 15, 1992.
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Right now I am 53
I see my condition improving
All my conditions Depression Schizophrenia Anxiety Addiction are improving
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I had the best friends in AA you Can Imagine.
But I only touch maybe half a bottle of white wine every other year. The result is always that I pure half a bottle in the zink because my good antipsychotics keep me from feeling drunk or good in anyway so now I will abstain from alcohol in the future.
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a very good article -thank you!
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Recovery means also from negative and congitive Symptoms?
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Recovery and remission are different right? Recovery means the person can go on with less than therapeutic meds or no meds
I bet they are too and I hope so.
Do AP’s prevent a person from getting tipsy or drunk off alcohol or something? @Niels_Hansen
20% recover from first episode psychosis and don’t need the continued treatment.
If your multi episodic or unlucky it’s usually meds for life.
I’m over 50 now and I do better than most but find my symptoms slowly decreasing. Still have the odd blow outs of paranoid thinking but I live life large and keep stress low and I’m lucky I can survive on disability.
Meanwhile I’m doing well with that inertia to do diet and exercise and I’m fitter now than I was in my 30’s when I drank and smoked. You can still improve your life with some really good gains simply from eating and exercising and I truly believe that. Won’t work for all but it’s something that is cheap and easy to adopt and leads to really good gains.
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All I know is I still believe I’m being followed, watched and reported on and recorded by Navy SEALs and the people they send on their behalf.
I’m told these are hallucinations and delusions. I’m 46, soon to be 47. I see no end in sight.
If they’re right and I’m wrong, I’m screwed because it means I can’t distinguish reality from fiction. And that is very scary.
I figure I will ask a personal question here, since there are enough people and some knowledge of schizophrenia on board:
Do any of you have throbbing sensation in your head or other physiological sensations emanating from your head? Or have ever learned of anyone correlated with schizophrenia to such a effect?
I am being serious, I tend to have this happen to me on and off for the majority of my time diagnosed. I have never really learned if this is something other schizophrenics have to endure, or if it is something outside the effects of schizophrenia.
It could be the other stuff I have going on, or it could be negative lifestyle means. I don’t know, but I will hopefully find out soon.
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In terms of schizophrenia’s delusions and psychosis, I was doing badly over the course of Oct and Nov, I am now feeling better and have let go of my mental attachments that were tied to delusions.
As a downside, my attachments are usually what allowed me to sleep at night when my head felt worse, and my sense of purpose / motivation has completely disappeared off the radar.
But at least I am not in pain or going crazy from the hormones. So I can rest at night without getting poor quality sleep.
No.
No.
Some people have somatic hallucinations. Something to discuss with your doctor.
i know that sounds crazy sweet likeble skinny but I suspect the Injection I take to prevent me to feel pleasure from alcohol.
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