Hi Recovering,
I was in a state of psychosis for six years straight and have been put in the most horrible conditions by this agency that is supposed to help you. I found out they were treating me for the wrong mental illness. So, this agency lost their court battle to work with the state. The new agency cared more about me and put me on the right medications finally and I came out of psychosis within a month and a half! I have been psychosis-free since Feburaury 2008.
They have also been successful at getting me off HALF my medications. Instead of taking 8 diffrent meds I'm down to three. So hang in there, take your meds and you could possibly be weaned off some of your meds at a later time and I would suggest that you keep on your meds for at least 6 months and see your prescribing doctor at least once a month.
My meds also help keep me from crying, getting angry, and give me a pleasant personality as I once had. I excercise 2-5 times a week (jogging) and belong to an art stuido that helps me get my frustrations out by means of art.
The hardest thing to learn though is to keep from discussing your illness/health with anyone, most people do not like to hear about people's weakness/illnesses. If they ask fine but this takes some tough love sometimes to be told this. I believe it's okay online but never in person.
So, you see, there are some of us that completely recover 100%, but I know that I will have to take meds for the rest of my life and I'm okay with that. Now I don't have to worry about frying my liver nor do I have any chance of getting diabeties because my MD, Endocrinologist/metabolism specialist and psycharist all get together and discuss what is best for me, oh, and they include me in the discussion so we can keep me on the right path.
I'm also hypothroid - this can mock psychotic episodes too sometimes and I also have a benign tumor on my pituitary gland (at the base of the brain and sits on top of my CNS (central nervous system) that I'm going to have removed. It is one thing that could be causing a lot of my problems. I'm going to have surgery to remove it because it is pressing on my optical nerves and I'm going blind because of this. I have other ailments but I don't like to tell people about them.
Hope this helps inform you a bit more regurarding medications you must take,
emc2rd