Comment by codingslave

I have a brother who went through about a decade of off and on psychosis, had probably over 20 hospitalizations, multiple suicide attempts, he had schizophrenia. So I moved home and lived with him, I never fully believed the diagnosis. He was on such a cocktail of medicine, I don't think anyone could stay sane on all of that. We started getting him off the antipsychs, off the mood stabilizers, no wellbutrin etc. A year later he has had no psychotic episodes, no mania, is trying to quit smoking, and is more social. He still has his days in bed, but hes a real person, not a schizophrenic.