It's probably not that simple, but it is one angle of a multi-faceted approach.

I think the problem with the schizoid spectrum isn't especially unique to it - it's an aspect of the human condition. There are very few things which can be applied like a blanket statement, and work for everyone. Doesn't matter if it's rules, assumptions, medications or coping strategies - we're just all very different people.

Drugs both helped and hurt me. I was certainly more lucid most of the time, but it seemed like my psychotic episodes weren't being curbed as much as put on layaway. I'd end up with these massive, explosive meltdowns every few weeks or so, marked in-between by periods of fairly normal behavior and thinking. On pills, that is.

Without them, it's more of a constant eddy of turmoil that I feel I can manage more easily. Really, neither solution felt more "right" to me than the other, but one cost me a lot less money.