People have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and recovered fully or partly. There's one famous case where dialysis preceded and may have caused the recovery, although further studies on other people with schizophrenia got mixed results. (See Dialysis for schizophrenia: review of clinical trials and implications for further research (http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=158199), for instance.) I remember finding a statistic, possibly on NAMI's website, saying that some single-digit percentage of people simply recovered for no known reason, but now I can't find it, and not for lack of trying. I also remember two autobiographies by people who eventually (after years of psychosis that got better and worse) recovered to the point that they could get on with their lives without worrying about it. A Google search turned up an article called Schizophrenia Prognosis (http://www.news-medical.net/health/Schizophrenia-Prognosis.aspx), but I have no idea how reputable the site is.
Somewhat relatedly, have you read terajk's post, So I wrote 1500 words on disability in Avatar: The Last Airbender (http://terajk.dreamwidth.org/104102.html)?
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Date: 2013-03-20 05:57 am (UTC)People have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and recovered fully or partly. There's one famous case where dialysis preceded and may have caused the recovery, although further studies on other people with schizophrenia got mixed results. (See Dialysis for schizophrenia: review of clinical trials and implications for further research (http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=158199), for instance.) I remember finding a statistic, possibly on NAMI's website, saying that some single-digit percentage of people simply recovered for no known reason, but now I can't find it, and not for lack of trying. I also remember two autobiographies by people who eventually (after years of psychosis that got better and worse) recovered to the point that they could get on with their lives without worrying about it. A Google search turned up an article called Schizophrenia Prognosis (http://www.news-medical.net/health/Schizophrenia-Prognosis.aspx), but I have no idea how reputable the site is.
Somewhat relatedly, have you read terajk's post, So I wrote 1500 words on disability in Avatar: The Last Airbender (http://terajk.dreamwidth.org/104102.html)?