There are many here that suffer psychotic disorders , but none that have reached the diagnosis of sz and have fully recovered. I spend my time trawling forums to find evidence of high functioning sz. And its just not their. There are many that see themselves as having potentialy met the diagnostic criteria but have not being officially diagnosed by the pdocs.

I would like psychcentral to cast the net wide and bring recovered sz into q and a forums here and into other forums. And let them speak frankly as to how they recovered. There seems to be misinformation from psychiatry as to the power of meds to direct recovery and there also is inaccuracies with the antipychiatry movement in how they represent their dx.

For example Paris Williams a well known polemic on the drug free recovery model for sz says he is a recovered sz. Yet his recovery was complete in 2 years , drug free, psychiatry free , where after he went on to get a phd in clinical psychology. Underachieving for a sz ? Misrepresentation of Dx? Not many I know , could complete a degree , masters and phd without incredible mental clarity , all this post psychotic break. So what's afoot?

On psychiatry's side we here of meds being the route to work, family and a normal life. Yet in trials the subset who actually 'respond' to meds is better than placebo but not of striking margins. And of this subset of responders only a further subset is deemed recovered.

From forum to forum I read of people taking antipsychotic meds , yet they are still insufficient to allow them to work or integrate fully with society.

And the antipsychiatry movement seems to be full of cognitive agile and robust people sporting degrees , doctrates etc. Something not quite right I would say.

So where is it all at , i'd like to see a credible organisation investigate this further.

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