Just as a pain killer reduces the pain of a headache, drugs can help with the symptoms of schizophrenia. One may, for instance, stop hearing imaginary sounds. But the intrinsic nature of schizophrenia is reduced reasoning abilities and abnormal emotional responses, which drugs cannot change.
就像頭痛給止痛藥一樣，經過藥物治療，幻聽、妄想等症狀雖然可以消除，但精神分裂症的本質還是會讓患者的邏輯思考、推理能力退化，情緒反應異於常人。