Social Aspects of Paranoid Schizophrenia Recovery

In light of a close friend's recent paranoid schizophrenic breakdown, I decided to research the social aspects of recovery so that I could be as helpful as possible. A great deal of the formal literature concerning the treatment of mental disease in general focuses on psychiatric treatment (i.e. the therapy and drugs commonly used to alleviate the involved symptoms.) I was more interested in how patients deal with recovery outside the hospital or clinic. …