What is schizophrenia for people who don't know? And what is it like from its best phase that it can be to its worst?

Well, I'll skip to the best phase first.

This is what I want people to know, especially those recently diagnosed, because I didn't know this until just recent years, but people can recover from it.

And there was an article online called The Seven Myths of Schizophrenia that the head of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada director told me about.

I can't find that article online anymore, but it said that the disease can leave later in life.

And it didn't give like a date range for it.

I'm 54 now.

and they think that it's over for them and nobody else has said something to them that you can say to them right now, what would you say to them?

What did you see that others were overlooking not to be able to see this, to create this such needed opportunity for people?

Well, first off, when the disease first hit me a lot, like in 94, my heart went out to people in war-torn countries, extreme poverty, who had mental illness as well.

I'm like, how do you do that? I was going through mental illness in Canada with a sort of so-so mental health care system compared to where it could be.

But I'd definitely rather go through mental illness in Canada than some other countries in the world.

But I don't know why I never went looking for information on mental health and developing countries.

I never went looking for it, and I do not know why.

But in 2017, a TED Talk burbled up into my feed on mental health and developing countries by Vikram Patel.

and they think that it's over for them and nobody else has said something to them that you can say to them right now, what would you say to them?