> The whole schizophrenic spectrum is a reversion to survival mode. There could be some seed of truth in there, but, sweeping statements about what schizophren

> The whole schizophrenic spectrum is a reversion to survival mode. There could be some seed of truth in there, but, sweeping statements about what schizophrenia is need to be delivered with more than assertion. > This is what a animal hears all day- "They are out to get me, its one huge conspiracy" Not even wild animals think like this all the time. I feel confident saying they live very different inner lives to what you describe. > is the thought process of a mouse Comparing people with schizophrenia to terrified mice is bad. Not all schizophrenic delusions are paranoid in nature, for one thing. And for another, even if the basic mechanism were fundamentally the same (totally unproven) the differences between mouse brains and human brains, mouse culture and human culture, etc, makes the comparison rather pointless. Add to all this, the fact that no non-human animal has been definitively shown to have schizophrenia in the same way humans experience it. And of the animals that might have schizophrenia, like mice with a disrupted DISC1 gene, wouldn't they be different to normal, healthily anxious mice? ... Please, consider trying not to make declarations about stuff like this when your domain knowledge isn't quite up to the task.