My grandma was schizophrenic and, before I was born, she had a strong involvement with a certain branch of religion. Not getting into it, but it has led to me holding some viewpoints about religion that I won't express here.
To answer your point, though, she wandered inside her own mind and often she did express (most often by writing) these things. On paper (no pun intended) it made no sense but if you suspended judgement, her internal conversation was no different than any of ours. She was just trying to make sense of things and had chosen the supernatural as an answer.
Without wishing to sound offensive, schizophrenia can often be a funny illness too. It took a lot of accepting by people outside the family but she could be incredibly rude in ways that were entirely deserved by the recipient.
IIN we have a schizophrenic in our family that says weirdstuf
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My grandma was schizophrenic and, before I was born, she had a strong involvement with a certain branch of religion. Not getting into it, but it has led to me holding some viewpoints about religion that I won't express here.
To answer your point, though, she wandered inside her own mind and often she did express (most often by writing) these things. On paper (no pun intended) it made no sense but if you suspended judgement, her internal conversation was no different than any of ours. She was just trying to make sense of things and had chosen the supernatural as an answer.
Without wishing to sound offensive, schizophrenia can often be a funny illness too. It took a lot of accepting by people outside the family but she could be incredibly rude in ways that were entirely deserved by the recipient.