How person know he is in relapse ?
I live nearly with voices all the time
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I was 21 when I got out of a long stay in a hospital. I started to slowly get better until I became what doctors like to call “stable”. After many months of being stable and working part-time and doing lots of cool stuff I figured I would never be hospitalized again. But the gods of “schizophrenia past” (like “A Christmas Carol”, lol. Get it?) had other, slightly harder plans for me.
At about age 27 or 28 I started throwing up frequently but I didn’t know why. Then something psychological having to do with the vomiting took over and I started being hospitalized. I got hospitalized about 4 or 5 times in rapid succession. Each hospitalization was only three or four days.
I forget if I announced, “Wow, I’m relapsing”. I don’t remember saying it officially but yes, it was a relapse.
Back then I didn’t really expect anything out of life. That attitude was a double-edged sword if you know what I mean. On one hand I had no expectations from life so any success I had at jobs or school was like a huge, huge bonus that I didn’t plan for or expect and I had no explanation for. But on the other hand that attitude just made me go with the flow and when my head started betraying me in conjunction with my body and I just accepted that. It seemed hard, unfair, and torturous but I just figured I’m a schizophrenic and this happens to us.
It was actually 100 times harder than how I’m making it sound but yeah, it was a relapse that sent me back to square one for at least a year. But it was unmistakably a relapse. When you’re 28 years old and your day consists of laying out back on a tiny lawn at my dads house where every movement was agony and that’s the highlight of your day for an hour and then the rest of the day you just feel crazy as hell, plus the hospitalizations; that my friend, is an unmistakable relapse.
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Thanks @77nick77 for reply
I also relapsed in the past i remember when i was hospitalized it was very hard and agony i also lost many years of my life becoz of relapses and failed many years in university
Thank you 
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I have a relapse story I could tell you, it’s one I’ve shared on the site before. But if you don’t want the story the answer to your question (in my opinion):
A relapse is when your symptoms start controlling how you live your life. They get beyond the point in which you can remain in control of yourself
I.E. I still have voices but I can tune them out most days, kind of make them sound like white noise. Sometimes I since panic attacks building and I know I need to distract myself before it gets out of control. Sometimes I can do this, but other times it takes more effort on my pat. Like the other night. We were watching an old X-Files (i still love that show) and it had a scene were a woman was strapping an older patient to a bed, and people were suffering from mental illness…and well it gave me a small panic attack later on. I was able to find a spot on the floor, a little design made in the fake wood floor and focused my attention on that until my emotions got in check.
If I were truly under a relapse, I would have needed something a lot more to calm myself down. Or another night my voices were trying to tell me I wanted to die…but I don’t really. Had I not worked to drown them out and it be a promise I made myself years ago I probably would have tried something.
by the way, that promise is to never react in the heat of the moment with my voices. After all they’re in my head, they can’t hurt me. Only I can hurt me. Wait 24 hours, even 48 hours and the feeling will pass.
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