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My mother is suffering from schizophrenia from last 20 years, she is taking Serenace 5 mg and Pacitane 2 mg since then but initially there was improvement, but we are not able to get her out of the dependency on these medicines. Also sometimes she shows the symptoms, looks like these antipsychotic medicines are not able to permanently cure the disease. Can someone suggest a permanent cure.
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There is no permanent cure, like diabetes you have to give medications for lifetime. It will control the symptoms to certain extent depending on various factors. Get yourself educated about the severe mental illness, schizophrenia. The recovery depends on the type of illness, symptoms and most importantly regularity of medications since onset of the disorder. More irregular the treatment, more will be negative symptoms, resistant symptoms and deficits. You need to regularly attend a psychiatrist review for 6-9 months to realize good changes, and thereafter continue regular review as per his advise. All the best.
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