What I've learned the hard way: schizophrenia is a chronic condition, and it doesn't go away on its own. Like a sleeping tiger, it's always ready to pounce, given the opportunity. It's a mixed metaphor perhaps for me to also say the symptoms mutate over time. The prognosis is good when a person takes his meds as prescribed, commits to his recovery, and refrains from drugs and alcohol.

For close to 20 years I took Stelazine, and when it stopped working, I switched to Geodon, a newer atypical....