Mental Health is it permanent?

[DOB]

I want to ask,my friend she used meth for year then stopped 10 months ago....... she started hearing voices in her head,probably some unbearable paranoid kind........ anyway,she was put on sulpiride and I think after three months it was gone,two month later she used MDMA and the voices returned even stronger so she use sulpiride again,5 months passed and she still hear them,....... I wanna know if she is schizophrenic,if these voices will stay with her for whole life

she behaves normal,not like these crazy ppl in psych ward,she is ok except the voices

 

[bees_knees]

The first episode is usually treated for a year, then the second episode treatment continues for two years, or thereabouts, and the third and fourth, well, by then they sort of assume it's now chronic so they say it's indefinite treatment. They (case manager) told me every episode the situation becomes a step closer to 'no return' due to minute brain damage in specific areas that accumulates/doesn't heal and is expressed as worsening symptoms.

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

^That's interesting.

I do believe that the more times one is hospitalized/the more failed treatments one has had, the harder it is to attain and retain remission. But I think a lot of that is a scare tactic. I don't have full remission of my symptoms due to some extenuating circumstances but I'm still able to go through life relatively symptom-free, just this lack-of-sleep thing to tackle now. But I've found a good cocktail of meds that works for me, a very good therapist, and finally most of the support network (though it could be more comprehensive) that I need in order to lead an almost normal life.

Saying someone is "crazy" is a little bit rude, I would say unless they don't even have the comprehension to understand what you're talking about. I've had people tell me they're not as "crazy" as me or that I'm "crazy", or even possibly worse, that I'm "fine" when I was under the harrows of a disease. It always hurts, particularly the first two.

The short answer is that no one can tell you if the voices will stay forever. Generally, with the right help, they can be reduced to a less threatening level. Sometimes they don't stop, at which point people teach you techniques to make them less intrusive, clozapine is considered, etc.

 

[DOB]

she told me today its getting better...... I am not sure if its becose of sulpiride or the brain is actualy healing and its not permanent.......... she want to stop taking it I told her not to go cold turkey but from 200mg to 150ng bext week to 100 and 50............. I hope she will be ok

 

[Shrooms00087]

I want to ask,my friend she used meth for year then stopped 10 months ago....... she started hearing voices in her head,probably some unbearable paranoid kind........ anyway,she was put on sulpiride and I think after three months it was gone,two month later she used MDMA and the voices returned even stronger so she use sulpiride again,5 months passed and she still hear them,....... I wanna know if she is schizophrenic,if these voices will stay with her for whole life

she behaves normal,not like these crazy ppl in psych ward,she is ok except the voices

If a doctor gives you a drug that regulates chemicals in your brain the last thing you should do is take hard illicit street drugs. If the voices went away then they found some control in whatever chemical balance. By taking MDMA you are breaking the levees that block serotonin and dopamine which would once again upset the chemical balance which had once been under control. Hope this helps.

 

[DOB]

If a doctor gives you a drug that regulates chemicals in your brain the last thing you should do is take hard illicit street drugs. If the voices went away then they found some control in whatever chemical balance. By taking MDMA you are breaking the levees that block serotonin and dopamine which would once again upset the chemical balance which had once been under control. Hope this helps.

dude,I am here 7 years I know very good that MDMA is no no for voicehead,she did it when we werent in contact