Mutt

the major tip off that somebody might have schizophrenia is that they appear to be listening to a voice - often they will tell you that a voice is talking to them from the TV set. with my friend i could tell when i was talking to him that he was listening to a voice that wasn't there - it was very obvious. also they just do strange things, appear confused, can't concetrate or follow a conversation for long, so if they're in school or working they will be screwing up big time. there are other mental illnesses where people can disassociate from reality - the term 'mental breakdown' covers a whole bunch of different illnesses, sometimes just people who are mentally exhausted and their brains give up after a period of long and intense stress. Like soldiers who have been through hell, sometimes those people never come back.

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