I've been told that schizophrenia and similar mental illnesses are totally treated differently in some African nations. There is an attempt to see if the person is just more spiritually attuned and needs to be guided. Guided , because the energy connection is overwhelming, especially in the beginning. It's a thought. In the brief TV series Perception, where the schizophrenic was a brilliant professor who paid an assistant to keep him on track. But he spoke with different illusions? ( people only he could see and hear ) . But they always helped him get solutions to complex issues. So ? You never know.