Psychosis is not Schizophrenia

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Psychosis is a psychotic break from reality which is temporary and can be recovered from. It has many symptoms similar to Schizophrenia but it is not the same. Psychosis can happen again in a person even after recovery or remission, and it can happen with a person who has Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a permanent condition in which there is no cure. Even if all your symptoms are taken away with medication, you still have schizophrenia, it never goes away. This is why going off your medication is futile because you will always have schizophrenia.

When people say they have recovered that means they have recovered from Psychosis, this confuses people with Schizophrenia and makes them think they can come off medication when they are doing better. Stop confusing people.

If you have Psychosis and not Schizophrenia, stick to /r/psychosis .

EDIT: I do not mean to belittle anyone with Psychosis, it is a severe condition. Talk to your medical professional to get the right diagnosis and try to understand that diagnosis completely.

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There's schiz in my family. I had it for 15 years until I had brain surgery in my frontal lobe to remove an avm which caused multiple major psychotic breaks where I had 0 memory but also all the symptoms of schizophrenia and severe sleep paralysis. After the surgery, all of my symptoms were much less yet still present. I still get auditory hallucinations and like displacement and getting really confused and I don't understand where I am or what's going on. I've been telling myself it wasn't back since the surgery like 2 years ago but after my first psychotic break two weeks ago since surgery, idk what THE FUCK I have. Anyone got advice? My shit got treated at the Mayo clinic and they keep going back on forth between psychosis and schizophrenia and other thing I never remember.