It is a spectrum disorder. Among those who have had first episode psychosis, the first break, there is precisely zero point on the spectrum where it's not wort

It is a spectrum disorder. Among those who have had first episode psychosis, the first break, there is precisely zero point on the spectrum where it's not worth treating it. A tragic illness that wreaks havoc on the lives of the individual, and often those around them. Employment rate in the single digits, for competitive jobs. A part of the spectrum where research shows there is nothing to cure is schizotypy/apophenia and magical thinking, but only when paired with conscientiousness and high intelligence. The combination of these traits may be linked to creative genius. But those people don't have schizophrenia. The other Serious Mental Illness, bipolar, is far less debilitating when medicated. Esp. Type II. And linked to creative success, esp. in the arts and when paired with high verbal intelligence. Kanye, Churchill, Cobain, Woolf, Hemingway, Van Gogh. John Gartner, psychologist @ Hopkins, wrote a book about 20 years ago called The Hypomanic Edge. The thesis somewhat comical yet believable, America has tons of folks on the bipolar spectrum, experiencing low level hypomania. The idea is you have to be slightly mad to leave home and travel to a distant land with nothing. Risk taking, competitiveness, etc. As far as curing something that doesn't need a cure. There's a conversation to be had with mild forms of bipolar, especially if it never tips into full mania. Schizophrenia, after the first psychotic break, there isn't. And the lives of those even when medicated is often really, really hard.