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Originally Posted by fotze
That sounds mighty schizophrenic like talk, you just might be a schizo or at the very least pro-schizo, I say we hangs ya just to be safe.
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Lol.
I'm not, but I do have one friend who is. It's pretty mild though and personally, I think it's more like social anxiety disorder. But he is labelled as "schizophrenic". I have never seen him act violently, although he was convinced before that a women he didn't know was in love with him. That was actually what brought his condition to the attention of his family and how he got treated. Sometimes he will do strange things though, like mutter non-sensical phrases. One time he thought that the store front windows downtown were arranged in ways that were giving him messages, but they weren't dangerous messages. They were things like "to call his mother" or to go to the park. Probably the funniest thing he did was he stayed all night at a Robin's Donuts store because some stranger bought him a coffee. He had it in his head that if he left and the stranger saw that he drove a nice car, he'd get angry that he paid for his coffee he might want to fight.
Mental illnesses tend to vary. The general labels don't really say much about the symptoms specific individuals might have. Two people who are "schizophrenic" might act totally different while having episodes.
I would be really interested to know out of all the violent crimes that occur within a year, how many are done by people with mental illnesses, and how many are done by people who are supposedly "sane". Are mentally ill people really more dangerous?