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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kingius" data-source="post: 5992200" data-attributes="member: 85123">"Schizophrenia is somehow society's fault? Not the byproduct of a chemical imbalance in the brain, causing visual and/or auditory hallucinations of non-existent people? I'd make some joke about "I'll have to ask the voices about that", but in context that wouldn't be very funny."Actually, I'll stand up for him here. You have no doubt heard that some people crack under pressure. Sometimes people crack in permanent ways. I'd like to expand on his point too; it is entirely possible that schizophrenia might not be a chemical imbalance on the brain, this theory is put forward by atheists who do not believe in the soul or the spirit and therefore must find an external, materialistic explanation for everything with no regard for what the truth of the matter may be. Therefore it follows to consider (by those of us who do believe in the immaterial essences of things) that schizophrenia could well be an external influence rather than an internal one, in a very different way. It could possibly a the result of an invasion by other beings that did not result in complete domination. Even today we hear about murderers claiming voices in their heads told them to commit the most awful crimes; we treat these as being internally sourced, but to the open minded, they might not be. It's impossible to prove either way, like most of these kinds of questions, because only the /material universe/ can actually be measured.Apart from that though, I pretty much agreed with the rest of your post and do have some sympathy for the original posters point of view, however I do feel that D&D is simply taking the most extreme form(s) of madness as the basis for it's fantasy setting equivalent.</blockquote>

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