Posted by bleauberry on February 5, 2014, at 19:18:07
In reply to Does schizophrenia resolve?, posted by Christ_empowered on February 3, 2014, at 19:04:03
I have seen it resolve almost completely in two different people.
Both of them had long histories of psychiatric medicines and both discovered remarkable recovery from different approaches, neither of which had anything to do with psychiatry. One was the power of Jesus and the other was antibiotics. Both were pretty much blind faith, not enough evidence to be sure, but enough suspicion or conviction to justify going ahead with it.
I think the symptoms of schizophrenia wax and wane up and down a bit over time, some periods of worsening and some periods of improvement. I have never seen, however, spontaneous remarkable improvement. There was always a specific strategy being applied.
I think in fact that if nothing is done to attack generalized disease at its core, the symptoms of schizophrenia worsen over time.
They can and do resolve but as far as I have seen it requires a purposeful effort and in my journeys I do not see evidence those results will come from psychiatry. Psychiatry can be extremely helpful in the meantime to manage symptoms in the near term, but it is not going to stop disease progression. It doesn't do much of anything to diagnose physiological problems that could be causing the symptoms.
> This isn't anti-medication. I take 3 daily meds and 1 prn. That's not the issue.
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> The issue is...does the complex of cognitive, social, etc. deficits known as "schizophrenia" resolve, in some cases? Maybe get a downgrade to residual schizophrenia or something?
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