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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
Stable is no symptoms at all in this context. I had maybe 2 hallucinations in a year but no episodes for the 2 years before I tried and importantly the failure rate is high----I was fine for 9 months off meds but then relapsed now they think I'll be on meds indefinitely so you want things to be optimal for the 1 time you get to try to go off.
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Wow, I don't feel like I'll ever be 2 years with no symptoms. Though I was for about 6 years, maybe more, and then relapsed. It's a horrible feeling looking into the future and thinking this could all come back. I want to have kids some day and I was thinking of trying when I'm two years symptom/hospital free, I don't want to bring kids into this World with a parent who gets as delusional as I do sometimes. They did tell me I wouldn't be on meds for a long period of time though so that's hopeful. I'll talk to my nurse about it tomorrow when I go for my depot and I'll let you know their stance on stability and trials off meds.
Thanks for your input sometimesp!
EDIT: Yeah this doesn't really apply to people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective. More so for the poeple with psychosis NOS type diagnoses