Hey, deserve listeners. This is chapter three in my deep dive on schizophrenia personality disorder.

And as an introduction to this chapter, I thought I would present some famous cases of people who have schizophrenia.

Now, the first thing that I want to go into is that when you Google famous people with schizophrenia personality disorder,

you get a lot of lay individuals who are diagnosing from afar.

And there's a lot of dubiousness to that. So let me just talk about that upfront.

I looked at a lot of the different famous people who were diagnosed from afar, not only diagnosed from afar,

but diagnosed from far before history. You know, people that lived and died hundreds of years ago,

people are diagnosing them with schizophrenia personality disorder, which is really quite silly,

not only because it's diagnosing from afar, but it's also diagnosing with extremely limited information.

Basically, some internet author will barely understand, gets a typo, or read a couple of the criteria,

and then just start really nearly applying it to everyone.

For example, a lot of people are diagnosing Emily Dickinson, the poet, with schizophrenia type.

And what I think is going on is that anyone in the past who was, you know, very much of a loner,

someone who kept themselves in a way that seemed odd, at least to, you know, our modern eyes or contemporary eyes,

there's a tendency of authors to want to diagnose those people with schizophrenia type.

So just knowing that someone is a loner does by no means indicate the person has schizophrenia type.

There's so many other reasons as to why someone would be a loner.

One, they can have nothing pathological about their personality or their psychology,

and they just like to be alone.

Some people are really introverted or, you know, they just don't, or the circumstances and their community are such

that they just, it doesn't go well.

There's also social anxiety.

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