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Originally Posted by costello
I think people who recover from sz are unlikely to continue to be active on a site like PC. I know I wouldn't. I'd just go on with my life.
One problem I've seen over and over is that if someone says they've recovered from sz, other people immediately jump in and say, "Oh, you never had sz. Maybe you were misdiagnosed."
It's like the very fact of having recovered is evidence you never had sz. We "know" you can't recover from sz, so if you've recovered, you never had it. Or else you're about to relapse at any moment now.
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This is true among both patients and docs....the dsm III actually said that recovery from sz was so rare that it should make you question the accuracy of your original diagnosis...so they just go back and change the dx...this is like my current pdoc wanting to make me brief psychotic disorder even though I don't fit the criteria....well I recovered so I must not be anything that even starts with sz doesn't fit the model. Genetically I have the hallmarks of sz some 20 indicators and when I first was diagnosed the fact that my grandma heard voices was considered a family history of sz...I got treatment early not because it was anything mild but because it was unbearably severe...in fact my genetics are more consistent with treatment resistant individuals stuck on the back wards than anyone else(GRM3/COMT val/val). As far as hanging out on PC I didn't even find it until I was recovered and I wanted info about going off meds...I almost left during the transition off meds because I felt like I no longer belonged here but I already made friends so I stayed...