What does it feel like when you recover from shizohrenia?

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I mean school/work /Social problems

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I still have some bad negative symptoms so I wouldn’t say I’m recovered. Hoping one day it’ll improve

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After being diagnosed with schizophrenia I took a few classes in psychology to learn more about the field where this disease resides. I finally was able to take “abnormal psychology” where I learned about the various mental illnesses, the functions of the brain and pharmacology. Educating myself about the facts and statistics about schizophrenia has provided me with insight on how to proceed in the recovery process.

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is there any chace that the brain heal itself

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The brain heals itself physically but cognitively or mentally no, which is why schizophrenics take anti-psychotic medication for the rest of their lives probably.

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sorry wt do u mean physically

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The two lobes of the brain.

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Sorry for the late reply but I’m good can’t really complain. How about yourself?

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Depends on the person. At 156 mg it took me a year and some months before I felt not depressed. But it comes with time.

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Welcome to the forum!

I think you should take your medication, honestly. It balances the imbalances in your brain that cause schizophrenia, I think. I take medication, Vraylar to be specific, and it’s changed my life for the better. I can think more clearly and I’m not delusional. I’m more recovered from psychosis because of medication than I could ever be without it.

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sorry to ask but what do u think trigger ur psychosis?

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IDK. Kinda like chicken.

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I think recovery for everyone is different based on the severity and symptoms your experiencing. I am supposedly in recovery yet still hear voices all day long. I am just able to function at a very high level now from being able to function alright but in major inner turmoil (almost crying everyday due to the illness but being able to hide this feeling on the outside). Now I just get angry at the voice all the time.

Recovery now for me would be to get less bothered by the voice. Which has happened for small periods of time but it always manages to get under my skin.

I guess one step at a time is the way recovery works.

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The true recovery from schizophrenia is from having the positive and negative symptoms healed. You no longer have weird delusions about reality, you’re not hearing voices anymore, you’re not thought broadcasting and living a weird crazy narrative, you’re just in the objective reality everyone else is living in.

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i agree with the last sentence.

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Hey, no worries. I’m good. Are you still taking invega? Can’t quite remember if you had switched to something else or not

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I’ll tell you when my delusions are gone or beliefs and are manageable.

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when u know the delusiona are gone?

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@schizophrenick thanks for asking… What triggered it? A mountain of stress and living my life as a workaholic combined with alcohol abuse and a genetic inheritance from my father of late onset schizophrenia.

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When I don’t have weird thoughts and memories of past lives in parallel universes. I’m not even sure how it works because it is so advanced and seems nonlinear sometimes. I’ve processed them and got reality checks.

I have some insight. I know they are bizarre and no one believes me despite me believing in them a lot.

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