Schizophrenia

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…recovered or showed significant improvement in their illness after two to four decades. No one can predict which patients will suffer an unremitting illness, whose schizophrenia will be episodic, or who will eventually go on to recovery. Yet the findings that some schizophrenics do eventually recover have inspired new hopes. A diagnosis of schizophrenia remains serious and frightening, but at least the schizophrenic's outlook may not be as grim and gloomy as was long believed.