Have you tried? Placing yourself away from all triggers?
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My older brother tried this as a tactic, right around the time I opted for traditional treatment. Last I heard, he’s living in a condemned building he’s fortified in case of zombie attacks, burning his trash for warmth, and eating moldy bread because he is convinced it is homemade penicillin.
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You and your brother have schizophrenia. What was your schizophrenia treatment?
Yes, we both were diagnosed. I started geodon in 2015. He started doing workbooks and isolating. I’m married, with kids.
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Probably would do the opposite. I heard some people live in specialized homes to help with paranoia sort of like a faraday cage home lol. But I think living off the grid is pointless, moot, and futile, but that’s just me. I tried room and boards or board and cares for a bit and I don’t think I would do well alone in subsidized housing at all at least for me…
Yes and no. I spent a decade living in an extremely rural area with a population density barely above that of the Australian Outback. Yes, there was relief from some of the expected triggers from urban environments. However, there is a whole world of new and horrible triggers waiting for you. They turned out to be worse and I am happily returned to civilization.
Moving away from medical care and good services is a bad thing for people like us. Trying to simplify my life made it more complicated and was the cause of the worst relapse I had in the past decade when I should have been very stable.
My advice is don’t even try. It’s a nice, romantic idea, but completely unworkable in reality.
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Doing small amounts of time on crown land to see how you feel might be okay. You cannot build or have perminant structures there. Perminant living would be hard.
When you say “off the grid”, do you mean isolating yourself ?
If that’s the case, then no, it won’t help with your SZ.
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I felt like moving to Scandinavia, but cannot learn foreign languages. I struggled with Spanish even and that was before schizophrenia. I’m not a language person at all.
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Taking time with nature cannot harm you. Days out in the wilderness would help I think.
One of my group home friends has totally gone off the grid, in a city! He’s sold everything. Last time I seen him he lost 28ibs in weight, cycled 20 miles in winter so I could buy him alcohol. He got barred from visiting my group home by the management. I still worry about him.
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You haven’t been stalked by a pack of coyotes, I take it.
I believe, as humans, we need SOME sort of social interaction embedded into our lifestyles.
Even if it’s minimal, it’s something.
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Says 367 coyote attacks on humans from 1977-2015. Being stalked by them is scary. The odds seem low and carrying spray in the woods is advised. Hazards exist in urban areas as well.
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Not as low as I would have liked. I took to keeping bear spray and carrying a machete with me when I walked through the hills. Got stalked at least a dozen times. There was the one time I realized a hunter was shooting at me because he thought I was a deer from a distance. Thank gawd he was a horrible shot (he did hit my van). I was bright orange from head to toe when I went outside after that. The more remote the area, the more dangerously crazy the locals tend to be.
I think you should ask yourself why you want to. If you are doing it to escape your problems it may, but it creates a host of new and different problems. Most people who choose to live off the grid are effing weird and should not own guns. 
just my experience
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Rural life is different. Owning a gun is necessity. Shutterbug spoke of experience being stalked by animals. It is not “effing weird”. May be a culture you are unfamiliar with. Rural people are not bad people.
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We were very rural, but not off grid (that would have been even worse). There were a few people living off grid in the area and they were full-on bonkers. Everyone gave them a wide berth.
I actually am effing weird and I’m proud of it. I also don’t think I should own a gun. We had one, but it lived in a gun safe my wife had access to and I didn’t. We no longer have a gun now that we moved back to civilization. I do have numerous bows and the arrows for them live in a locked cabinet. My wife pulls them out if I want them for an afternoon at the range (target shooting only, no hunting).
Are you good at archery? Is your wife
We’re both NASP certified BAIs, but I am the much better shot of the two of us. I have been doing archery since my teens and she only took it up to help with coaching when our daughter was in archery in school. I love shooting with my Olympic recurve the most.