3 months for me. Moved to austin texas alone in an apartment. Threw my abilify supply in the trash because it was making me sick and I had some devine inspiration that I could spiritually fix myself and I then went nuts for 3 months. It was eventful. I thought there was a nuclear bomb in my car and I abandoned it on the highway. The cops came and found me on the side of the highway and took me seriously about the nuclear bomb. After that was a few months in a mental hospital where I thankfully found Zyprexa that eased me away from my delusions. But by then I was in a group home that was a shithole. So I abandoned it and was homeless for a short while until I started doing things like getting naked in public. I had many voices in my head and they were all friends and I had superpowers. I thought I had like a cell phone connection in my head to all of them but I had to prove it so I arranged that all these people would meet with me and drive to where I was but they never showed up. By that time I was in the grips of a nasty group home where everybody stealed from everybody else and some crazy woman was trying to get in a relationship with me. At that poing I came to my senses and was able to get some of my disability money to get a cell phone and reconnect with family. My dad had abandoned me but thankfully came and got me out of there a year or two ago. I’ve been doing great ever since including working but that was quite an episode.
About six months or so.
My latest episode began in 2002 and, although I am recovering, is still ongoing…
My first episode and last episode was for about 2 and a half years almost 3
Looking back I started to become psychotic in 2009. I was hospitalized in 2010 and got meds in 2011. So, about 2 years.
Yeah… ongoing for about 3 years now… getting better slowly…
The voices are posed back there… and while I falter sometimes and slip into old insane/insecure mentalities… all in all I’m mostly over my issues and my fascination with schizophrenia… there isn’t much left for them to say… I grow noticeably further away from their effects every month.
my first episode was the longest, a year and a half.
8 months… my single relapse lasted just a month or so, i.e., if one starts counting from the moment hallucinations became an issue. The part where lurking delusions became a very serious option, just a few hours fortunately.
How are you doing now
I’m doing pretty ok compared to then. I have some paranoid thoughts left. And voices. They never leave my side.
Are you doing well
What was your recovery process and how are you doing
Meds make all the differance to me. I have control. Without meds I lose control.
I’m doing better now, I’ve never 100% recovered. I still hear voices and have delusions of being possessed. I’m also having problems with paranoia.
My recovery process was going to doctor appointments, at one time at one clinic I had DBT, therapy, med clinics and an appointment once a week with a social worker.
my longest period of delusion lasted seven months…I wrote a book about the experience. I don’t read the book anymore, too many triggers.