> Someone taking master's level classes in psychology once said to me something like "Schizophrenia is known to get worse due to social factors. You put schizop

> Someone taking master's level classes in psychology once said to me something like "Schizophrenia is known to get worse due to social factors. You put schizophrenics in residential treatment, they get better. You send them home to their crazy-making families, they get worse again." How does this accord with outcomes being better for them in less developed countries? I had a friend with paranoid schizophrenia and he spent the last few months of his life mostly getting outpatient treatment at home.