You must go and jump off a bridge. It's like having a real bad twin that's always wanting to do something bad. And the voices was like demonic, and I couldn't control it, you know. And I would try to run to church on every Sunday to get them little spirits away from me and all that. It is the lack of will, a lack of ability to initiate actions.
People lose the ability to socialize.
People lose the ability to produce language, and in particular, lose the ability to have any pleasure. Imagine never again being able to enjoy pleasure, in anything. Anything you eat, anything you see, anything you read. In most patients with schizophrenia, this constellation of symptoms does not lead to behavior that is more violent on average than the rest of the population. Russell Weston Jr. Many do commit crimes, and that is why a number of people with schizophrenia are among the estimated 200,000 with severe mental illness who populate the nation's prisons.