Anecdotally my experience living in a very poor country is that even the extremely schizophrenic can have a much better life than the one they'd have in my curr

Anecdotally my experience living in a very poor country is that even the extremely schizophrenic can have a much better life than the one they'd have in my current rich, Western country (Netherlands). However, this outcome depended on whether these individuals had a social network that could support them. The severely mentally ill (or for that matter, also the physically disabled or orphaned) without such a network fared significantly worse than they would over here in Holland. In fact, their situation was sometimes so bad that I'd go for the 'clinical' and flawed but consistent just to avoid that. I still feel there's a middle ground to explore, though, or at least a lot of inspiration to draw from.