Is schizophrenia a disease that cannot be cured?

  The view of some people: schizophrenia is not curable. Is it hopeless to have schizophrenia when you are able to alleviate some and reduce some of the symptoms, but always have recurrent episodes, which is actually the case?  In fact, this view is wrong. As long as treatment is timely (especially for first-episode psychosis, with a duration of less than 3 years) and thorough, preferably to achieve complete remission, allowing multiple drugs with different pharmacological mechanisms to cooperate with each other, and with sufficient dosage, at least 80% of cases can be completely recovered, with the original symptoms disappearing completely and function being fully restored.  Why is it necessary to use drugs with different pharmacological mechanisms to cooperate with each other?  Schizophrenia, which neurotransmitter is the problem, has not been fully elucidated so far. If only one type of drug is used, some patients may experience partial remission of symptoms, and this may result in significant improvement by combining other antipsychotic drugs with other mechanisms of action, and a full dosage and course of treatment is required. Practice has shown that the application of sufficient amounts of each drug as such has not increased the side effects, and there have been no adverse accidents.  Of course, there is a possibility of relapse after schizophrenia is cured, so it is also important to maintain treatment for schizophrenia patients.  Those that are reliable in terms of efficacy, try not to gain weight, have little impact on metabolism, and do not induce compulsion. Patients can tolerate it and it does not affect their lives. Some patients can be maintained with aripiprazole when it has completely resolved the problem. There are small doses of clozapine that are well maintained. However, some older drugs such as fenofibrate and pentoxifylline are still ideal maintenance drugs. Side effects are minimal and economical at dose hours, and it is not always wise to expect expensive drugs.