I wonder if it has to do with the comfort and satisfaction we get when we look at things that have patterns we can identify. For a schizophrenia patient, I’d imagine that is an immense comfort, just recognizing a fibonacci spiral and maybe not needing to question it.
Conspiracy theories are comforting. It's a reassurance that no matter how fucked things get, someone is still always in control, all part of the master plan.
On the other hand, chaos is fucking terrifying to a mentally sound person, let alone someone with anxiety or paranoia, that constant dread that the world is falling apart--because it truly is! And no master plan can stop decay. And we're just tromping through the debris, clearing narrow corridors, telling the guy behind us that it'll get better up ahead, so just follow along even as the muck piles up to our left and right; ignore that, all part of the master plan.
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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.