I really don't know the anwer, but your post reminded me of something.

One thing about the big psychotic episode i had that lasted five years, I was actually very coherent. I was in college for part of it and doing really well, keeping up a 4.0 average at the time (which is even better than I did in high school, when I was just a C student really.)

I was also very social at the time, and not isolating. I had a group of terrible friends (I thought they were great then,) who betrayed me. But, I was very social and going out and having fun. I seemed like your typical young adult I guess. Except for that whole thing about the evil organization that was after me....