These are my ideas about the nature of schizophrenia, and of course it is a personal view. I hope this piece will interest you.
Schizophrenia is one of the classifications used in diagnosing a mental illness.
It is characterised by psychotic episodes usually lasting weeks or months and periods of remission. When the psychosis is over the sufferer often feels very deflated and may have persistence of the delusional thoughts. I have met many patients who say that the medication merely sobers you to the point where you can act normally and keep your unusual beliefs to yourself. Schizophrenia, though certainly not meaning a split personality as popularly misconceived, may be understood in terms of a fractured or broken spirit. Laing believed that the psychosis would naturally subside after a period of time leaving the schizophrenic quite often better off than before - in my understanding less frustrated.