I want to find out more about this illness so that I can help my friend. Thank you for your concern for your friend. Please tell your friend that the medications may take a long time before they kick in. Also, recovery from Schizoaffective Disorder is a slow process, sometimes taking many years. Your friend must be patient during her recovery stage.
Time is always a big factor in recovery.
Also, please make sure that your friend always takes her medications and goes for therapy with her psychiatrist. Please visit our Schizoaffective Disorder page for more information on this disorder. ARC Dear ARC, Any person with a mental illness should never take illicit drugs. The drugs counteract the effects of the medications and sometimes lead to terrible consequences. Also, illicit drugs can cause the mentally ill to have symptoms of their illness brought out when it was under control with the medications.