Simulation Of Paranoid Schizophrenia

By Leo Gura - April 8, 2025

1 in 222 adults has schizophrenia.
(Not all of it is paranoid schizophrenia, there are various types and degrees.)

If you or someone you know has schizophrenia, it requires medication and psychotheraputic help. See a psychiatrist as soon as possible, don’t put it off. The sooner you start medication the better it works. Schizophrenia usually begins between the age of 18 to 27.

A lot of homeless people suffer from mental disorders like schizophrenia which cripples their ability to function normally in society and hold a job consistently. The homeless are not just lazy people or people who’ve had bad financial luck, 50%+ have serious mental disorders which make normal life impossible. Which is why it is wrong to just blame the poor for being poor. If you had schizophrenia you’d be poor too. The rich underestimate how much health plays a role in generating wealth. It’s very very hard to generate wealth when you’re ill through no fault of your own. Which is why a libertarian society is pure nonsense. Society requires systems to help people who are in no condition to help themselves, and charity or private sector is not enough. Government needs to fund serious research. The kind of research and funding that right-wingers cut, cut, cut. How much of such research has Trump and Musk cut?

The collective economic burden of schizophrenia is around $340 billion dollars/year. If you invented a cure for schizophrenia it would be worth $340 billion/year! How’s that for a life purpose! You have the chance to cure 20+ million people from hell and you’re just sitting around doing nothing? Helping cure mental illness can be a huge life purpose.

Funding for research into mental illness is one of the best uses of public tax money because it pays for itself when cures are found. Healthy people are more productive, generate more taxes, consume less resources, and create less damage.

Materialist ontology is insufficient for making sense of mental disorders like schizophrenia. One of the aims of my work is to create an epistemology and ontology that helps science and medicine make sense of all mental disorders. This requires a Consciousness-first paradigm. The reason I study mental disorders is because it puts my sense-making paradigm to the test. You don’t really understand reality until you can make sense of insanity.

Note: What I refer to as insanity is not schizophrenia. Insanity is a much more radical domain of Consciousness.

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