prepsychotic

Getting young people into a preventive program while they are still in the prepsychotic stage is critical to success.

But they never return to their prepsychotic levels of functioning. 

As a result of such data, psychiatrists such as William T. Carpenter, Jr., of the University of Maryland, who chairs the Psychotic Disorders Work Group for DSM-5, believe that intervening at a prepsychotic stage could ameliorate and even thwart this serious mental illness in a large number of people.