John M. Kane, MD: We’re particularly concerned about patients who experience multiple relapses, because we believe that with each relapse, the illness may not respond as well to treatment as it did the last time. It’s possible that the illness could become what we refer to as “treatment resistant,” meaning the medications are no longer working the way we expect. That treatment resistance might be at least partially a result of multiple relapses.
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Yeah and some patients even become so used to hearing voices and experiencing delusions of grandeur, that even in times of remission they somehow feel lucky (!) to be schizophrenic.
@Om_Sadasiva dude get a grip!! You said you’re feeling suicidal every evening, believing you’re either Jesus or Buddha. And that despite taking an ungodly amount of zyprexa. Please be fine, I am worried about you.
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I am better these days, @Andrey. Thanks.
How are you?
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Good to hear. Remember: feeling suicidal, if only for 5 minutes a day, is NOT ok.
I am fine. Slowing down for the holidays… And fighting a strep infection. I’ll manage.
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Good to know 
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I feel lucky to have schizophrenia.
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I feel my relapses havent had effect on how well meds work or such biological stuff. They were incredibly traumatic experiences though that still deeply impact my life. I still struggle psychologically with the fearful things that came up during psychosis. I would easily give away a limb (or a few) if i could go back in time, do over my life and make choices that avoided psychosis.
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I feel lucky to be a sza in remission. Especially after many years of being treatment resistant.
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Can you relapse/do damage if you are still taking your meds? I only relapsed majorly after going off my meds for a year.
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People relapse while taking meds. I don’t know if that causes problems.
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Makes sense. But I feel like I’m better on vraylar than on risperdal. I started off on risperdal.
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in remission do you mean like you dont take medicine anymore?