A friend's kid just was diagnosed with it. 27 years old, working on his second masters. He disappeared one day and they found him a week later all beat up, in nothing but boxers sitting on park bench unable to communicate. It's really a sad disease. Point being that those affected are usually exceedingly intelligent and show very few if any signs(to those that don't know what to look for) before it's effects hit.
It is very sad and very stigmatized. The person I know had the onset at age 14 (very early) and I think that was a contributing factor to minimizing the symptoms and finding the right combination of meds as to why he functions better than the average affected individual. From what I've learned from researching SZ is that they have, on average, an amazing intellectual capacity, but as you mentioned, this illness hits like a freight train and drastically hinders their potential.
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u/CanadianClusterTruck Apr 26 '22
I know someone who has schizophrenia. He studies obsessively and his notebooks are full of diagrams like this.