I am taking sulpitac tab 100 mg morning, 100 mg night, my doctor saying to me that you have take medicine lifetime. I am suffering from sczhophernia. But my question is that is I have to take medicine lifetime, or not. Somewhere I read that if you have attack of sczhopherinia 2 times you have to take 5 years of medicine please help?

Mr. Saul PereiraPsychologist50yrs exp

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That is not correct. Schizophrenia is a lifelong disease not doubt but if you combine medication and psychotherapy simultaneously, there is a good chance that you can resolve a large part of your problem and become pretty functional if you are cooperative and committed. In any therapy, cooperation is the key to recovery. The mere use of medication is insufficient, especially if you are looking to come off of the medication. In therapy, you will learn a lot of skills, tools, and techniques to deal with your problems and to face life with suitable adaptations. Because you are young there is a good possibility of treatment being successful. It is important to identify the type of schizophrenia you are suffering from and accordingly the approach in therapy can be made suitable for your recovery. You may have discovered the schizophrenia only in recently but it is likely you had had some symptoms earlier but it was not diagnosed or you may not have presented major symptoms, either. Because it is a psychotic condition you need to be made to relate to reality often by confronting the distortion of your environment. You may be given to delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking and speech. You may be emotionally unresponsive, suffering from social withdrawal, extreme apathy, and lack of initiative and drive. If this is true, and you are allowed to go internal you can strongly relate to your distortions and in fact, believe in them to be true. Usually, your cooperation with rehabilitation and medical intervention is often not as desirable as it should be. In which case, someone has to monitor you constantly and enforce some compliance. You must be kept functional to become aware of your surroundings and build on a steady and trusting relationship with at least one member of the community. You may be difficult to handle, and you yourself will not find it easy to comply with therapeutic expectations. With someone strong and firm you could be made to follow a tight schedule and do many activities and exercises to prevent you from succumbing to this illness. 

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