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One of the things I liked was MTV's True Life on Schizophrenia, ...
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I've never heard of this show, and it sounds weird to me to make a reality tv program about people with sz.
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If I take the schizophrenia test, I usually get around 17-22. However, 2-4 years ago I know I would of scored at least a 30. I won't go into absolute detail but I was almost a totally different person than I am today. To be able to make that recovery (but not full recovery) without medication is questionable.
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Don't know if it's questionable or not. I think others have done the same. This is why some of us would question the wisdom of rushing in with meds at the first sign of psychosis.
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... got me out of my "total" social withdrawal shell. It made me more inspired about life and made me think more simple, instead of forming extra meaning in everything while also thinking life was so empty. I guess you can say it was a way of minor treatment. Definitely not full treatment, because I still got issues. I can't speak for everyone, but for an example sometimes I can walk down to the store, everything is fine, then do it the next day, and I think everyone is out to get me... Sometimes to the point I can't go out in public at all. It seems to be an on and off kind of thing that happens frequently with paranoia. As far as concentration, it's impossible for me to read a book, and difficult to focus on things in general, because my mind is always racing, clustered, thinking of random things. ...
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All of this sounds like my son. Lately he's been objecting to leaving the house or being in public. He feels like people are watching him judgmentally. I've been telling him that - unless he's on the verge of total anxiety - he needs to make himself go out. It's too easy to get isolated. The more you go out, the easier it gets. The more you hide away, the harder it will be to go out. Of course, if it's a really bad day, and he just can't do it, he shouldn't.
Glad to hear you're doing better than you were. I tend to believe recovery is possible, so it doesn't surprise me that you're seeing improvement. I can see why this might make you question your recovery. My experiences in talking to people who believe strongly in the medical model of mental illness is that, if you mention someone who has recovered from sz, they'll say that person never had it to begin with, that they were misdiagnosed. If you continue to recover and are symptom-free, you'll probably encounter this attitude.