why do people say one can't recover from schizophrenia and on www.schizophrenia.com they say 50 % do?

Answer 1

Because some people who are diagnosed are drug addicts and/or alcoholics. When entering a 12 step program and or therapy, symptoms regress and are able to live life like normal people do. WITHOUT drugs and/or alcohol. Same with a Bipolar diagnosis. Many people do not think that any use of drugs and alcohol can trigger symptoms of this nature but it is more true now than ever. I am one of those misdiagnosed bipolar people( took 20 years to figure that out) and I know many people with various mental diagnosis who have recovered. One of whom now runs his own treatment center with a very high success rate. Those facts are true facts.

Answer 2

eriknba –

It IS a disease and an illness. You acknowledge as much in you own answer by correctly pointing out that it can often be treated with medication.

We, as a people, have a horrible and uneducated concept of mental illness. For one thing, we frequently do not take it seriously. Worse, we attribute the cause of the disease, or the disease itself, to some aspect of the suffering person’s personality or life style.

Think about the way we even talk about it. We say a person HAS cancer, but a person IS schizophrenic. When we do that we are making the disease some aspect of the quality of the person.

The truth is that severe mental illness is the result of problems in brain chemistry – and we know next to nothing about brain chemistry so far. It is a complex and tricky subject, and because it involves humans it is also difficult to study scientifically because it is hard to design and control experiments.

This will someday be better understood, but the first step is to recognize that mental illness is an illness. And, it can happen to anyone at any time, just like cancer. So, for all those people who blame and degrade those with mental health issues – you had better pray that it doesn’t happen to you because you will receive the same treatment that you are now dishing out.

Answer 3

What ordinary people say and what professional psychiatrists say seldom are the same. In reality, it is very difficult to overcome schizophrenia but it can be done. Whether there is an actual cure is debatable. Fifty percent is not a figure I'd use, nor would I feel comfortable putting any figure on it. I would say that if a client/patient is capable of functioning normally for an extended period of time, that person is as close to being cured as can be.

Answer 4

With medication people with schizophrenia can lead normal lives but there is sadly no cure for it. Without meds you suffer a lot. And it depends on what your symptoms are.Some people with it don't think they have it. Those types are usually in a delusional state and they are lost to the disease. You can recover from your symptoms. But once you are diagnosed you have it for life. But there is always hope it just depends.Everyone is different.

Answer 5

People with schizophrenia generally have to keep taking their medication for life, or symptoms will reappear. They can control their illness as long as they keep taking their medications and keep undergoing treatment, and if symptoms weren't too serious in the first place. Different types of schizophrenia are easier to control than others, but some people with this disease can return to the workforce, raise their family, and return to a relatively normal life, but treatment is usually a lifetime thing.

Answer 6

Schizophrenia isn't a disease or sickness, its a mental problem that develops over time, and is permanent. one never recovers from schizophrenia, but can lead a very normal life if they take medication to supress those symptoms. that is probably what the website is talking about.

Answer 7

Everybody is unique, not all meds work on all of us, with respect

Answer 8

it can be stabilized with medication but it never goes away.