I don't have schizophrenia.....but was major depressant recurrant & very suicidal for many years......my pdoc thought that my stress level before having my neck fusion that was supposed to help my migraines would be helped with throzine....& I was taking compozine for the migraine nausea........I really don't have a good time line of my life during that period but I ended up having problems walking myself into the bathroom, couldn't even feed myself by by hand let alone with utensils. It scared me so bad.....ended up going to urgent care & they recognized that the compozine could cause problems like that....so they took me off that med....but a month later & the symptoms hadn't gone away.....my husband would take me to the bathroom before he left for work in the morning....1 hour drive 9 hours at work & 1 hour drive home.....I couldn't even get out of bed to take care of myself.....I was desperate for the bathroom by the time he got home 11 hours later. I was so embarrassed about not being able to walk by myself, I wouldn't even leave the house. Went back to the ungent care & they sent me back to the neurologist that I was originally seeing for my migraines.....turned out that he caught that the thorozine was probably the cause of my TD......it took another month for all the symptoms to end up going away....it was the worst time of my life honestly.....I am sure that there are worse horrible things, but for me, it kept me house bound just as bad as anything else could have. After that & all the other horrible side effects that I have experienced.....meds are not my friend.....but I understand that there are some aspects of mental illnesses where meds are desperately necessary. I do hope that you can find something that really works that you won't have those kind of horrible side effects with & will bring you back to a more stable life.