If you had to give a person with schizophrenia the best help you could in a single paragraph..what would it be? Imagine this person is suffering and desperate for reliefand will follow your advice!
Give SZ your best shot….KO is the aim!!!
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You’re now in the survival game. The idea you’re like everyone else must be smashed. You have a disease that’s terminal if left untreated. You have to get on medication. If you don’t think you’re ill, take a leap of faith and trust those around you.
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Every person with Schizophrenia is different. Some have hallucinations, some have few or none. Some are highly med resistant, others not so much.
I have almost no hallucinations and meds work good for me.
For most people with schizophrenia, I guess the best advice I could give is to stay on medications and be careful with reductions or modifications.
My last 2 breaks couldve probably been avoided if I wasnt messing with meds. A lot of wasted time and recovery time that didnt need to happen.
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I would probably direct them to this forum..
Just so they know they aren’t alone and that there is hope.
I know for me for awhile, it was hard to socialize with people in person..
This place gave me a good boost in socializing again.
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There’s no cure. Recovery doesn’t happen overnight, it can take years. Co-operate with the people trying to help you; don’t fight them or look at them as if they’re the enemy.
For a good recovery you may have to do things you hate doing but are good for you in the long run. Such as support groups, group homes, vocational programs, seeing psychiatrists and therapists.
Of course take your medication as prescribed. Most likely you will be on it for life, if you’ve been on this forum for any significant length of time you’ve seen how many people think they can come off their meds successfully and you’ve seen almost all of them fail.
Don’t do drugs! Drugs may make you feel good but they’re a dead end. Eventually they stop working and you’ll have the same problems as before but now you’re an addict or an alcoholic.
Don’t sit around waiting for the perfect moment to do something for yourself or make a change. You may be waiting forever; just start where you are now and make the change like quitting smoking or starting a good diet or starting to exercise.
And to make clear, taking care of your health should be a priority. Have a good diet, exercise, go to the doctor regularly for a check up. Practice good sleep hygiene, go to bed at the same time every night and make it a reasonable hour.
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Ach mann thats the best one 
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Everything you thought you knew has changed. It has warped due to schizophrenia. You can no longer trust it.
Give up all those belief systems you had faith in as the rabbit hole now entered due to schizophrenia will just further your suffering,
Give up the unfathomable and live in the present. Do not dwell in the past or ruminate about your future.
Do not seek security in the imaginary or what cannot ever be proved.
Wake, do the chores, exercise, do EMDR for your traumas so as to live at peace with the present.
Do not seek to blame yourself or anyone else for the predicament one finds oneself in.
It is what it is.
Grasp the scientific and forget the supernatural etc.
Find a life that is worth living for by taking up healthy hobbies.
After the psychosis settles life can be made clear again.
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Focus on what you want, not the symptoms. Take medication, don’t get off of it even if you feel better, and remember, there is light at the end of the tunnel; there is recovery, not a cure, but you can receive management. Often times schizophrenics get stuck in loop of thoughts that are very distracting, and that can be hard to deal with, but remember, it’s not the end of the world.
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Man these are wonderful… i wish there was something like this for recently diagnosed sz’s. I bet it would make a huge difference if many sz’s shared what they have learned over the years.
I know when I got diagnosed I had zero peer support and had no idea what to expect. My doctors tried to help me but I made sooo many mistakes these last ten years that its sad.
Anyways..if I had to give advice it would be to try your best to actually understand the ilness you have… and when it gets tough remeber many people have come through and many are still fighting..find meaning in life through the suffering and never give up!!!
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