A Day in My Life with Schizophrenia Todd Nichols Schizophrehia can be a very debilitating disease. It affects both mental functioning and sometimes physical as well. Schizophrenia can make people think that everyone is talking about them and that they are plotting against them. It can affect the way a person speaks. Words no longer make sense.
Thoughts are either incomplete or very disordered.
A thought may begin with talking about picking apples and end with nailing chickens to the table so they will not run away. Physically, a person with schizophrenia can have an emotionless face. People are frequently frightened when they see a person walking down the street yelling and screaming, at someone who is not really there, about having to kill the neighbors because they are spies for the Russian Mafia. This is quite disturbing. This is my life.