Paranoid Schizophrenia is a hell of a hard disease to deal with when your friend gets it.

My friend developed it a few years ago when we were working on a company together. He was about at the age of onset.

I have dealt with a lot of diseases among my friends including drug addiction, depression, anxiety, but of them all Schizofrenia is the hardest because even if they want to they cant understand or listen to reason, so no words or even actions can be effective most of the time.

Its a hell of a disease and worse yet him as someone who is suffering with it has lost almost all of his friends and it isnt helping him mental health or ability to correct the problem.

@freemo I have a friend with that too. They fried the poor guys brain on head meds and his brain is swimming in so much chemical soup now he has the IQ of a child.

@Wetrix Im not sure if the meds fried him or its just the disease. To be honest the disease makes it very hard for most people to grow intellectually because off the meds they are completely incapable of recognizing what is real, and on the meds they are so tired they dont really have the motivation to learn or apply themselves.

My guess is your friend wasnt fried by the medicine, its just the consequence of the damn disease. In all liklihood he is probably better on the meds than off.

@freemo he got after he had a mental breakdown. It was all downhill from there. I don't know when exactly it started but they used him like a lab rat back then along with millions of other people.

This was just when riddlen, Prozac & frehzan etc all these head meds had just hit the market and they didn't know the long term or short term FX of them and just pumped people like him full of them and fried his brain. 😕

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Prozac is not used to treat schizophrenia, it's actually not recommended as it may increase symptoms. Only in specific situations, when you suffer both from schizophrenia and depression.

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Yea agreed. but it is very common because the meds to treat the schizophrenia tend to make people feel unmotivated and can often give people depression-like symptoms. so it isnt that uncommon to add on prozac to counter any impression that can be caused by other medications. Obviously the fewer meds the better so it shouldnt be a first-line drug as it wont even treat the schizofrenia itself.

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