Posted by alexandra_k on February 3, 2014, at 19:20:25
In reply to Does schizophrenia resolve?, posted by Christ_empowered on February 3, 2014, at 19:04:03
> This isn't anti-medication. I take 3 daily meds and 1 prn. That's not the issue.
> 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?At some point in history there was this test for witches. What you did, was you threw them into a large body of water. If they floated - they were a witch! If they sank - they weren't a witch! Of course if they sank they tended to drown and if they floated they tended to burn...
Relatedly...
Some theorists say that people with schizophrenia cannot recover because schizophrenia is a degenerative neurodevelopmental disorder. degenerative. that means... people get worse, not better.
So... If a person (you, lets say) with a dx of schizophrenia... Starts to get better... Then here's what those theorists would say:
'Oh! You don't have schizophrenia after all! When they dx'd you with that they were wrong! You CAN'T have schizophrenia because you don't get better if you have schizophrenia!'
One man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens...
Alternatively... One could go 'oh, I have a dx of schizophrenia so I may as well just curl up and die right now'. Or certainly not expect / hope / work towards getting better. No point, you see. No point at all.
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