Schizophrenia - prognosis after first episode

Every time I don't take my meds weird stuff happens to my mind. Doctor told me that my dose can be progressively lowered through years of treatment to the point I won't need them anymore. But I'm not sure of that. He didn't even told me about my diagnosis, I found out about it in papers for my pills. I just gave up the idea that I can be completely "cured". This is very hard to process that you may have a chronic illness for the rest of your life. I reccomend to seek help for that. My doctor didn't say about my condition because there are high suicidal risks for those who recently found out about their diagnosis. There is nothing bad in taking pills for long period of time.

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