The antipsychotic medications are effective and are known to give patients a better quality of life. Doctors are out there to assist these patients in finding the best treatment and medication possible for them. Not only are doctors a critical component here but the patients are as well. If a patients doesn't take their mediations properly and decides to discontinue medications on their own, the outcome will not be good and medications will not be effective. A patient that does not use treatment properly will relapse and have a bad life expectancy. It is clear to me that schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that needs to be treated in order to try and live a good life. Up until now antipsychotic treatments are what has been helping these
