Older, longer and more sustainable societies and cultures found places for some of the people we'd call schizophrenic today. I do think it's tragic that we've l

Older, longer and more sustainable societies and cultures found places for some of the people we'd call schizophrenic today. I do think it's tragic that we've lost those roles and ideas surrounding those roles in modernity. However, I've seen with my own two eyes schizophrenia destroy the lives of several people I know. These people are suffering, and not just because of how society treats the neurodivergent. They are trapped in hellish prisons of their own minds, reliving and reinventing traumas no one should have to experience. It's as if their own minds have turned on themselves just to torment them in uniquely personal and unseen hells. It's utterly tragic, and largely preventable with treatment. That said, even in the past, where there were roles for those who experienced schizophrenic symptoms, those with extreme symptoms also suffered from expulsion, disownment, imprisonment and death. It's a mistake to romanticize something that torments so many.