We have a new schizophrenic diagnosis in my house, my daughter just turned 16 and has spent all summer in the hospital trying to get things sort of right I guess, 
She’s home this weekend on a weekend pass and it sounds like her discharge is coming this week.  This morning I woke up and the blinds in my house were all closed again so she’s definitely suffering from paranoid schizophrenia for sure. Is it realistic to expect this sort of behaviour to continue forever despite being medicated? She’s still glassy and glazed over a lot of the time. She still hears voices and talks to herself in her room. I’m having an incredibly hard time connecting with her because I really done understand it. I’m trying though, I joined this group and have been reading and watching in the background for the last two months. 
Just looking for some good information and trying to figure out this monster without trying to be afraid of what my future with my wife will end up looking like, it’s been one hell of a ride already to this point. I don’t want to this my independence will be taken away from us but that’s a big fear I have with this, that she may not be independent ever.