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Originally Posted by blackwhitered
The problem with looking at studies on schizophrenia in the past or the history of schizophrenia is that for a long time, EVERYTHING was seen as schizophrenia. Bipolar with psychotic features? Schizophrenia. Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities)? Schizophrenia. PTSD? Schizophrenia. Autism? Childhood schizophrenia.
So it's hard to find examples of people who have recovered from schizophrenia because it takes time, and we're just figuring out what schizophrenia really is... Hell, the only other schizophrenic I knew in real life went back to the hospital recently and was diagnosed as bipolar...
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Yeah I don't know bipolar and sz were considered distinct at least 100 years ago it's only recently with the advent of genetics that we think there is a lot in common. But yeah you can get a totally different dx depending on the pdoc but also symptoms change over time. The harrow study actually looks at all those categories but with only 25 patients for each type other than the 50 for sz, the 25 is for sza, BP with psychosis and they even have a depression group as a control. So it's basically one psychiatrist with around 125 patients who's keeping tabs on them so his diagnosis should be consistent...everybody had a better prognosis than sz. Plus their outcome rate of 33% is really high for the US the WHO study puts high income countries around 16% recovery with developing countries at 37%. So clearly everybody should move to Chicago and partake of our healing waters...a lightly chlorinated version of one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world..plus it's an awesome place to live and the pdocs are pretty cool here.