At what age do you out grow schizophrenia? ?

Question

I did google this question, but nothing came up. Please help.

Answer 1

wouldn't it be nice if only the serious used this forum schizophrenia is not a joke it is a manageable life long condition

Answer 2

You don't outgrow schizophrenia. you can't just leave it behind, it's something you need to get treated for.  

Answer 3

Lifelong condition. It's caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which means you can medicate and live well, but you never 'cure' it OR grow out of it.

Answer 4

You don't outgrow schizophrenia, it's a disease that people battle with their entire lives.

Answer 5

I smell troll, anyone else smell troll?  

Answer 6

People battle with it their entire lives and sadly to say it gets worse the older you get.

Answer 7

Never, it's a life long disease. You have to learn to cope with it, it's not something like chicken pox. Not much you can do but get help from your family/friends/doctors.

Answer 8

According to a study by Cambridge University, schizophrenia gets worse, not better as patients age. I am quoting that study here:

"... All aspects of memory functioning were correlated with estimates of global cognitive status. When global cognitive status was controlled, age effects were still found for the majority of the memory measures. Delayed recognition memory was not spared, being performed as poorly as delayed recall. In contrast to previous studies of better-outcome patients with schizophrenia, geriatric patients with chronic schizophrenia performed more poorly than nongeriatric patients. ..."

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/dis...

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Yes, I'm just  "joking at you because you're poor." What a fun way to wile away the time, poking fun at poor people. You caught me.

Answer 9

You don't outgrow it.  It usually sets in in the late teens or early 20s, when the person has his first psychotic episode.  Some people never have another episode (meds can complicate this), some people have them rarely, and other people will have them often.  Current psychiatry operates under the idea that schizophrenia is a physiological brain disorder, and under that logic (I would generally agree), it does not go away.  However, the initial psychotic episode would probably last a month or more, and it all depends on that person's personal status and treatment, which usually involves antipsychotic drugs.