How long will it take?
30 years maybe?
I have much patience, but the sooner the better.
What do you think?
How long will it take?
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10 to thirty…imo…yes agreed sooner the better…
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I think it’s reasonable to guess something like that. Maybe 20. But there will be incrementally better treatments every few years too.
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Yes, the sooner the better… before I smoke my way out of this world 
Yeah, I’m a smoker, not a heavy one, but it should shorten my life by at least 10 years. I’m 33 now. Would love to have a cure by the time I’m 50.
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There will be amazing treatments for heart disease and cancer in 20 years too. All medical treatments will improve.
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I think reasonable treatments will be 10-30 years… the sooner we get quantum computers the better…it will advance us in every field… my guess aslong as major war doesn’t break out we will have quantum comps in that time frame and good treatment will follow shortly after… 100% cure… I think pre birth gene editing will rid humans of sz and autism…i think that may be the only true cure…
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Try using e-cigratee…
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Not in our lifetime. If you really study the disease it is far too complicated, there could be dozens of causes. For each cause you would have to find a different treatment.
Research is not advancing because treatments are already accepted and only 1% of the population have this illness. It is not very urgent in many eyes.
We will not see a cure for sz in our lifetime, I’m 21, not in my lifetime. The illness is just too vague, unpredictable and poorly understood.
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I hope with all my heart that all cases will be solved.
Me , my case is certainly genetic, with the right genes my life will be transformed.
I don’t believe you, you are wrong in my opinion @eduvigis a solution is only a matter of time.
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I was told by a top doc at Columbia University that “in our lifetime” they will have something like a cure or a cure for sz. In the next five to ten years I’m hoping to see advancements in medication though while I wait
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I see Schizophrenia as a type of complex form of brain damage.
I mean how do you cure a damaged brain?
Scratching my head on that one.
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The human brain is the most complicated thing we know of in the universe. A cure would be hard.
I believe a vaccine will be found before a cure.
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You can’t even be tested for it. No one can even prove whether or not you definitely have it. How are they gonna cure it?
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Who knows? It’s pretty amazing what the brain can bounce back from. Some people have it worse than others but at least they could make a decent medication, one that stops the psychosis and has less side effects. That would be a good place to start.
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It’s great to be optimistic, but I like being realistic. Schizophrenia is not a single disease, it is a syndrome with patients presenting with diverse combinations of different symptoms. In treating one symptom you will make another worse. There are a lot of interconnected aspects to our brain functioning.
For example why do you have cognitive symptoms exclusively while others suffer from both positive and negative but not cognitive. In order to cure schizophrenia you have to cure everybody.
For example, I have never had any hallucinations, but I still have the disease. For others hallucinations are their only feature and they have them all day everyday.
Some respond to medication antipsychotics the current treatment standard while 30 some percent don’t.
Some people never relapse while others remain steadily psychotic. Yet others have flare ups every couple of days/weeks/years/months.
It has been suggested that schizophrenia is more than 8 separate distinct diseases. How can a simple tablet cure a problem which has so many different facets.
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I agree with many of you, but it wouldn’t surprise me if polio had the same prognosis in the 1930’s.
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@eduvigis I feel that the patients will be cured, I may be wrong .
I am very sad because I am very limited by my illness.
I think that a lot of people suffer from the disease and its array of symptoms.
It may be that the schizophrenia should be catalogued differently.
It is downright depressing to think that the problem won’t get 100 solved.
You know what?
Let part be cured.
Me not being in that part.
I don’t care anymore, I am on the verge of giving up.
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Maybe polio is not a good analogy.
When you have that first episode you really lose a lot. So many people have to just check out of life… me included.
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