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Forty-eight hours following my hospital admission, doctors determined I was totally disabled.

For 11 months, I lived in full disability.

Today, I am not cured, but I am fully recovered.

Recently, I received an email from a young man who was angry at me for advocating for schizophrenia recovery. He said schizophrenia cannot be cured (which I agree with) and that I had no understanding of severe schizophrenia.

In this post, I would like to address both of these points. First of all, not only did I have severe schizophrenia, but I also spent four years homeless, including 13 months living outside, suffering from severe paranoia, delusions, and hallucinations. According to my first team of psychiatrists, I was never supposed to get better. During the following year, I had a very poor response to five different atypical (newer) antipsychotics I tried, and it seemed likely that I would be totally disabled forever.

But I did get better. Gradually, thanks to treatment with clozapine (which is not for everyone but has worked wonders for me), I live today in full recovery/full symptom remission. I am very aware that I am recovered, not cured. My highest hope is to continue clozapine as I am now for the rest of my life, and also to share hope for recovery with other people.

In this post, I will also share what I am up to in 2026.

Permanently and totally disabled

When I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007, my prognosis was bleak. Within about 48 hours of my hospital admission, it was determined that I would be permanently and totally disabled. I had no idea........

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