Social dysfunction is a state of feeling different from normal difficulties in normal work and social interaction, which is a characteristic of severe mental illness. However, the differences between individuals and other factors contributing to the regression of the disease are largely unknown, and the enormous cost of social impairment to society has resulted in unemployment and a much needed lack of productivity. And it is not only a consequence of the illness itself, but also proves to be the beginning of the illness, a functional impairment in the prodromal period. Therefore, the exploration of the recovery of social functioning in early psychiatric patients is particularly important. There is evidence that early interventions with psychiatric patients may have a positive impact, but there are also studies that suggest this approach needs further exploration. Functional recovery takes different forms and the identification of these different patterns is important in the development of optimally focused interventions. Therefore, Professor Hodgekins of the University of East Anglia conducted a study on social recovery in early psychiatric patients and published the results in a recent issue of The British Journal of Psychiatry. The experiment was conducted with 764 psychiatric patients in the early stages of their illness and continued for the next 12 months. The resulting data were then subjected to a potential class growth analysis. The results of the experiment showed three data types in the outcome of social functioning recovery: low-stable (66%), moderate-growth (27%), and high-decreasing (7%). The low-stable type had no significant improvement over 12 months, while the medium-growth type had a more pronounced improvement, and after 12 months, patients could basically reach the non-clinical range. The high decreasing type, on the other hand, can also remain at the non-clinical range stage, however, their social activity has a significant reduction. Since the initial activity of this group of patients is high and can gradually decrease to a relatively normal value in the long term study, we do not have to worry too much, which remains to be observed in the long term. Among all subjects, the individualized characteristic variables of male, minority, small age of onset, frequency of negative symptoms, and poorer pre-onset resilience all predicted that patients would not recover function as well as they should. These variables may be underpinned by the same factor, a factor that can influence the resilience and eventual recovery of psychiatric patients. One current issue that needs further assessment is social perception capacity, which can dominate each individual’s social life. And all those previously mentioned variables can cause a lack of skills in solving difficulties in life and an interruption in the process of pursuing one’s goals, affecting one’s life. There is an interesting phenomenon that older people are more in the high reduction type and less in the low stability type, a comparison that really does not exist in the medium growth type. This may reflect the fact that as older people develop psychosis, they have a higher baseline activity level. Similarly, the younger the age the less resilient the person was before the onset of the illness. Minority patients, most of whom were classified in the low-stable type compared to the moderate-growth type, did not differ in their progression in the mid-low-stable type and in the high-reduced type. This suggests that recovery may be poorer in minority populations, and therefore, studies on both age and ethnicity variables deserve to be continued to be better understood. Among psychiatric patients, social impairment is prevalent, and a wide variety of data show that recovery of social functioning is highly variable. When interventions are made early, the condition remains stable, thus necessitating targeted interventions. Such ongoing interventions include the provision of employment positions, cognitive therapy, and behavioral cognitive therapy for negative symptoms, all of which will yield immeasurable results. In addition, peer support can be used to weave a social network, which can be of great benefit. In previous studies, it was found that a person’s social disorder may precede the formal onset, so future inquiry needs to focus on the prodromal period. In fact, research has also found that social life is extremely detrimental to the recovery of social functioning with social impairment. Early intervention for patients should include the detection and monitoring of early signs of functional impairment as well as psychiatric symptoms manifested in their social life, which would both support the findings, including the fact that a reduction in social roles improves the predictive validity of the criteria for at-risk mental status, and that early intervention is particularly important given the difficulty of accessing help in society and the high level of social exclusion in this group.