Hello

Iam Andy from India, my friend is a 33 years old who was diagonised with schizophrenia ( not exactly but something like prior to on set of schizophrenia) at present he is taking 25 mg clozopine every night. He has gone though a lot taking too much of medication and lab tests for the past six years. His confidence level and courage has diminished drastically, but the only good thing is he always wanted to come up in life, his parents do help him but only to an extent, only physically not emotionally and he was married 5 years back and has a child. His wife doesn't know about his disease. But anyway he is just managing. Earlier he had studied in various schools, not in the same school for 2 years, he had difficulty adjusting to new environment. He was a college drop out , only because he war far away from home and was terribly home sick, this really had a drastic impact upon him.  From the age 23 to 33 he has worked only for 5 years, and for the past one year he is jobless. He is interested in stockmarket( because he don't have to deal with the people directly) and at present he is doing that. He use to seek answers by studying about schizophrenia and desperatly wanted answers for his survival. He had sexual problems and he always said that having sex only drains him away. He use to say that he had tremendous amount of stress building upon him and sometimes he ejaculates without his concinse, this makes him very tired and bad. He was angry towards people and nowadays he feels very tense when interacting with the people ,he says its only making him worse. After browsing through net and books he says Iam schizophrenic and I just have to beg for support  though out my life. He says people dislike him and whatever he tries to convince them only makes things worse.

So what can I do to help him and what are the things he has to do to boost his confidence. Please advice.

Thanks

Andy