On Being Sane in Insane Places

[Rateh]

Speaking as someone with personal experience (though not with schizophrenia specifically), there is no such thing as staying stable. There is only being stable for a period of time. If your going to keep someone in a psychiatric ward because they might relapse, your going to have to keep them there forever.

Yes it is true that medications do not work quickly, some can take months to take full effect. All the more reason for the doctors to have figured out that the person was not schizophrenic. The person would not have been showing any signs of schizophrenia long before the medications fully kicked in, unless of course they were simply sedating the person 24/7, or pumping them so full of drugs that they might as well have been sedated. Then they wouldn't know one way or the other if the person was schizophrenic because they wouldn't have the chance to show any signs, positive or negative.