Agreed, but my experience with people I actually know, who actually have schizophrenia, is that the one common factor I hear when they have died, usually through suicide..."he/she stopped taking her meds"....is that the IDEA of "stopping meds" was there. A lie they allowed take root again, or cannot see maybe. We buried such a man here recently. His father had died, and he thought " i will stop my meds to prepare for all the guests coming, i need to be clearheaded"....and then he killed himself 6 days later.
I know a woman who, when i met her, was a successful realtor, mother, and wife. 3 years later i see she is divorced, practically living on the streets, on welfare and is convinced anyon...

Agreed, but my experience with people I actually know, who actually have schizophrenia, is that the one common factor I hear when they have died, usually through suicide..."he/she stopped taking her meds"....is that the IDEA of "stopping meds" was there. A lie they allowed take root again, or cannot see maybe. We buried such a man here recently. His father had died, and he thought " i will stop my meds to prepare for all the guests coming, i need to be clearheaded"....and then he killed himself 6 days later.
I know a woman who, when i met her, was a successful realtor, mother, and wife. 3 years later i see she is divorced, practically living on the streets, on welfare and is convinced anyone trying to get her to take her meds again is her enemy---and that includes all of her family who she is accusing of the most distastfull things......etc etc.....

It's not easy.

i come from a familu of schizophrenics, my love killed himself during a psychotic episode 3 years ago. i'm moody and iconoclastic but know who and where i am. (sometimes to my regret)....even so, i think there's no one way for everyone. i reacall reading some studies several months ago that showed that for some people, psychotic breaks are "spiritual emergencies" that--if allowed to happen, and with proper support, have much better longterm outcomes than having the crisis artificially interruped and being drugged into the *appearance* of being fine. the blog is named spiritual emergency, i think, and i recommend it highly. some people need meds, some need them for periods of time but not alw...

i come from a familu of schizophrenics, my love killed himself during a psychotic episode 3 years ago. i'm moody and iconoclastic but know who and where i am. (sometimes to my regret)....even so, i think there's no one way for everyone. i reacall reading some studies several months ago that showed that for some people, psychotic breaks are "spiritual emergencies" that--if allowed to happen, and with proper support, have much better longterm outcomes than having the crisis artificially interruped and being drugged into the *appearance* of being fine. the blog is named spiritual emergency, i think, and i recommend it highly. some people need meds, some need them for periods of time but not always, some need them period. that's what i've seen. and i've seen plenty, much more than i can share here.