a cure. They begin almost immediately to calm severe agitation and dampen emotional responses to delusions and hallucinations. Other benefits come more slowly. A more nearly full return to rationality and functioning usually takes some days or weeks; in chronic schizophrenia, it takes many weeks or months.2 Their main function, according to this very typical statement, is to relieve symptoms or the way a person feels. When you hear proponents discuss these chemicals, you get the idea that a counselee’s