The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.
I think playing somebody who's schizophrenic is such a lesson as an actor. It gets you totally out of your comfort zone, because you can't rely on your technique, your external stuff. You've really gotta look inward, in a way.
There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
I'm a schizophrenic writer.
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.
I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.
Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'
Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.