Excellent point. Many schizophrenics have poor quality of life, but support from friends, family, and society and large can prevent it from degrading further, and even make it a lot better. Some people with schizophrenia can even be relatively functional, even without medication, if they have a good social structure. I could be wrong, but from what I&#x27;ve heard, with therapy and decent support, they can basically recognize their hallucinations and most of their delusions as internally generated and try to ignore them. That&#x27;s still a terrible way to live, and they also still have the negative symptoms (which even most serious medication can&#x27;t treat very well, if at all), but schizophrenia isn&#x27;t necessarily a doom sentence.<p>And especially with medication, it can be manageable. John Nash, for example.