<p>I started my course at Case Western Reserve University in Fall 2009 but was sent back home a month later after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. They have agreed to take me back in Fall 2010 if I take antipsychotic medication. However, I don't want to take the meds. Does that mean my acceptance will be revoked? Is there anything I can do?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>You have a lot bigger problems than being revoked from college, IMO.</p>
<p>You can take the medication. Given that you have a serious mental illness that could make you a danger to yourself and others, the college has every right not to allow you back if you refuse the treatment for your illness.</p>
<p>Get your health in order before you even begin to worry about college. I’m sure there’s a personal reason as to why you do not want to take your meds, but please, accept some kind of treatment.</p>
<p>I don’t know. If you don’t want to take your meds, what makes you think they will allow you to attend their school knowing that there is a high possibility that you will skip or stop taking your medication altogether?</p>
<p>But yes, I agree with the poster above. Accept the treatment. Worry about college later.</p>
<p>I suggest taking the medication. Unless you have good reason not to, aside from your gut instincts, then you should be taking them.</p>
<p>How did your school find out about your diagnosis? How severe is your case of schizophrenia? It’s all relative. I know it is possible to go to school and do well even with schizophrenia and without taking medications, but it really depends on the person. Personally, I don’t think the school should be able to revoke your acceptance, but make sure school is something you know you can handle first.</p>
<p>Take your medication if you want to attend college. </p>
<p>The college is only trying to protect you, itself, and their students and faculty.</p>
<p>take your rejection as a blessing. This is your opportunity to take care of yourself, understand your condition and learn the best ways to treat it. I have an uncle with paranoid schizophrenia (a pretty severe case) and one thing he has NEVER done for himself is truely take care of his health, both mentally and physically. Take this opportunity to do that; school is by far less important.</p>
<p>look at it from the college’s perspective, they’ve got a kid with schizophrenia who isn’t being treated and is refusing treatment who wants to attend their school.
i’m sure you can understand their concern when you consider certain events that have happened at other colleges.</p>
<p>i’m not suggesting that it’s anyway comparable, i’m just emphasizing that your college’s requirement of you being medicated is their attempt to protect the school.</p>
<p>hell yes, they might…& i wouldn’t blame them, as others have said.</p>
<p>I am going take this a bit further then will the college accept me if I do not take the meds. You need to honestly do research on this disorder and the effects of not being medicated. This is a life long, there is no cure for it, disorder. There could be very lasting effects if you continue to be unmedicated.</p>
<p>"They have agreed to take me back in Fall 2010 IF I take antipsychotic medication. "</p>
<p>seems to sum it up. </p>
<p>You really should take some time to understand the risks and benefits of treatment before you make big decisions. Can’t you take medical leave before saying yes or no? I’m guessing there was a reason the school knows of this, and you were “sent home”.</p>
<p>Lmao @ the people assuming OP is a danger to him/herself and others… I think a written statement from your psychiatrist that you are not a possible threat to anyone, even unmedicated, would be my next move. If your psychiatrist doesn’t agree to that, then he/she has sealed your fate (at least, for now).</p>
<p>The benefits of treatment of Schizophrenia do not necessarily have anything to do with level of dangerousness. It (arguably) is about being able to organize ones thoughts, which is usually a requirement for doing well in school. In addition, if you are prone to, and experiencing repeated psychotic episodes, there is evidence to suggest actual damage to the brain occurs. Think “dementia”.</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_praecox[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_praecox</a></p>
<p>ADD students are not forced to take medication to organize their thoughts as an admission requirement. I can see no other possible explanation, other than as a safety concern, to require someone with schizophrenia to take their medication before attending.</p>
<p>I think you have not met someone acutely psychotic due to schizophrenia.These disorganized thoughts do not remotely resemble those of one with ADHD.</p>
<p>Still, from the schools perspective you may be right.I am more concerned with the OP.</p>
<p>Anyway, if that ADD student does poorly enough to draw the schools attention, and get “sent home”, then says “it’s because I have ADD but I won’t accept treatment”, what do you think would happen?</p>
<p>A student with schizophrenia wouldn’t have been separated from the university unless the symptoms of the disease had caused significant disruptions to the educational process.</p>
<p>I tend to agree with other posters who say this is a blessing that you have been sent home packing so early.</p>
<p>Many students fumble through all four years of college, never being able to take time to work on themselves mentally and physically.</p>
<p>Be glad that this was caught early on - you now have months to prepare yourself for school again. </p>
<p>I am not your psychiatrist. I am not you. I am not Case Western admissions. However:</p>
<p>You should know what the process is for reapplying to the university. Do they require a doctor’s note saying you are prescribed medication and have been taking it consistently? Etc. If you don’t know, you can ask what the process is.</p>
<p>There is no reason this should be a question on CC - I doubt anyone knows for sure. You are in the best position to figure this out, of anyone. </p>
<p>What you are going to get is a lot of generalized responses, like this one I’m about to give:</p>
<p>Did you truly take this time to work on yourself? Do you truly feel more successful? Does your psychologist feel you are ready? Do professionals think you need medication? Are you being honest with yourself about why you don’t want to take it? Etc. etc.</p>
<p>Make sure you are in sound mental health before returning to college. It will be in YOUR best interests. Again, you are so lucky that this was caught early on, and you have a chance to make it work. Good luck. Don’t blow it ;).</p>
<p>Schizophrenics aren’t really a danger to anyone but themselves.</p>
<p>What you should do: Take the meds, hope they work and go back to school.</p>
<p>What I would do: Tell them I’ll take the meds, go back to school and chuck them.</p>