Recovery Rate Six Times Higher For Those Who Stop Antipsychotics Within Two Years
New research finds that people with serious mental illness who stop taking antipsychotics after initial treatment are more likely to recover, even accounting for baseline severity.
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A new study by Martin Harrow, Thomas Jobe, and Liping Tong found that odds of recovery from “serious mental illness” were six times greater if the patient discontinued antipsychotics within two years. The study followed patients with schizophrenia and affective psychosis (bipolar and depression with psychotic features) diagnoses for 20 years. The study was published in
Psychological Medicine.
Specifically, the researchers found that those who