When I google +“an episode of schizophrenia” I get 88,300 results:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%2B"an+episode+of+schizophrenia"
As I remember it, there was a time when the first episode was called a “psychotic episode,” and schizophrenia, once diagnosed, was considered a long term illness.
When did this change? I didn’t get the memo.
If you google anything you will get 88,300 results.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%2B"an+episode+of+everhopeful"
" No results found for +“an episode of everhopeful” . "
https://www.google.com/search?q=%2B"everhopeful"
"About 13,400 results "
Nope. 
Long-term psychosis and schizophrenia are not the same thing. “An episode of schizophrenia” is more specific than “an episode of psychosis”.
“A quarter of those who have experienced an episode of schizophrenia recover and the illness does not recur. Another 25% experience an unremitting illness. The remaining 50% have a recurrent illness, but with long episodes of considerable recovery from positive symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disordered thinking, and catatonic movements.”
https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/9/1/73
" Effectiveness bulletin
Drug treatments for schizophrenia
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Clive Adams, editor
Cochrane Schizophrenia Group, Oxford, UK
Paul Wilson, research fellow,
Simon Gilbody, research fellow,
Anne-Marie Bagnall, research fellow,
Ruth Lewis, research fellow"
Note, “the illness does not recur.” So there is an indication that schizophrenia is often just a temporary illness.
I’m not complaining. I think it is probably progress to not be marked with stigma for life.
I think you have to see this in the context of better treatment.
A little over 50 years ago there were no medicines that could help. Now we have these chemical straight jackets and they work well for a lot of people. Well enough that we’re allowed outside.
Also, for many different reasons, older studies have grossly underestimated the prevalence of recovery.
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