Psychiatric patients are generally recommended to take medication for about two to three years, and then according to the development of the patient’s condition to determine whether it is necessary to continue through drug treatment.
Psychosis is a chronic disease, the course of the disease develops slowly, need to continue to take drugs, after the condition improves gradually reduce the amount of drugs, but still need to use drugs for maintenance treatment, maintenance treatment time is generally about two to three years, to minimize the recurrence of psychosis and the development of the disease, during this period of time you can gradually reduce the amount of drugs, but can not be discontinued on their own.
Due to the differences in the organism and the degree of the patient’s condition, the time to reduce and stop the medication also varies, and the reduction and discontinuation of medication is also affected by a variety of factors, such as the effect of drug treatment and the effect of psychological counseling.
Therefore, there is no accurate time for psychiatric patients to take medication, two to three years is the lower limit of drug treatment, the upper limit also needs to be judged according to the patient’s specific situation.