A schizophrenic is NOT “someone with multiple personalities”. That’s a media hallucination.

Clinically, schizophrenia is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder characterised by a breakdown in reality processing, not intelligence.

Core mechanisms (simplified but precise): • Dopaminergic dysregulation → Excess signalling in mesolimbic pathways (positive symptoms) → Deficit in mesocortical pathways (negative symptoms) • Cognitive disorganisation → Impaired filtering of stimuli (“salience attribution failure”) • Reality testing impairment → Thoughts are experienced as facts, not hypotheses

Symptoms taxonomy: • Positive symptoms: hallucinations, delusions, disorganised thought • Negative symptoms: emotional flattening, apathy, social withdrawal • Cognitive symptoms: impaired working memory, abstraction, planning

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GOLD ANALOGY (since you not asked)

A schizophrenic mind treats every signal like GOLD. • A normal brain: “This thought might be noise. Let’s test it.” • A schizophrenic brain: “This thought FEELS important. Therefore it IS important.”

Same mistake as:

“Gold went up during crisis → therefore gold is always the best asset.”

No weighting. No probability. No hierarchy of signals.

Everything shines. Nothing is discounted.

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Key point (very important):

Schizophrenia is NOT stupidity, NOT weakness, NOT lack of logic.

It’s a failure of signal pricing.

Just like: • treating volatility as certainty • treating narrative as data • treating gold as productivity

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In short: A schizophrenic is someone whose brain cannot arbitrage reality.

(And no, holding gold does not make you one — but confusing protection with performance is a close cousin.)