Schizophrenia

I've been reading about schizophrenia today. It's a common misconception that schizophrenia means divided personalities, or two or more "people" in the same head. It really is more about fractured thinking. Delusions. You can hallucinate hearing things, seeing things, feeling things (as in tactile sensory input), and rarely you can also think you smell something you cannot possibly smell at the time, like the leather from your first baseball glove while you're swimming in a lake somewhere. The brain runs amuck, and you're at its mercy. How frightening to slip into a world like that (unless of course your real life is worse than the feeling of fire ants crawling over you at all times, a constant stream of voice interrupting your thoughts, the terrified paranoia of being hunted by aliens, and visions of dead loved ones walking up to you while you're waiting for the bus).

You could be kidnapped by your own mind, tortured worse than any Iraqi prisoner.

Chew on that, people.