When I was in an outpatient program following my psychotic break, they told us that the brain would heal after 6 months on an antipsychotic. Mine became worse! But I was on a wrong antipsychotic, Risperdal, which made me more depressed than ever and the depression was morphing into psychotic depression. Now I am back on the right AP, which for me is Geodon, and I am regaining sharpness and it has not yet been 6 months - it has been 2 months and some. I think they were probably right at the outpatient program and I would go back to normal after 6 months on Geodon, but it has to be the correctly selected AP and not just a random AP to help heal the brain.

This is just my experience and what I was told at the IOP.