I apologise for being dismissive, however let me assure you I am not dismissive about the effect of mental illness on peoples' lives. I don't think it's a game and I don't think I said it was a game.
My attitude to mental illness is coloured by my relations with family members who have worked in psychiatric care. The impression I have built over the years is that psychiatric medicine is pseudo-science, and that the people who pass through the psychiatric treatment system are by and large treated as clusters of symptoms rather than people, and as a result they are treated badly. The problem being there is currently no objective test or proper neurological model for this thing we call schizophrenia and that the medicines used cause as many problems as they resolve, which would be expected from a practice based on unsound theory. So unless this picture is wrong, or unless things have drastically improved in the last, say, ten years, I tend to view statements about psychiatric conditions as being matters of controversy and not established fact.
I happily admit I know fuck all on this subject, I have just been in close proximity, for most of my life, to those who are involved in it.
I also do not like the use of the word "schizo" as it is pejorative and demeaning for those people who find themselves labelled with it.