My friend recently told me a story that he went through a manic episode that the doctor said was schizophrenic i listen to it and I just thought about it and to me it sounded kinda far out but not so mental. I mean I get this impression that if our society wasn't the way it was we would have less schizophrenic that the pressure of so called normality puts a pressure on people that wow the brain starts doing some far out stuff.like when we are children it's perfectly normal to pick up a telephone and talk to the imaginary persons, have disjointed speech and even hallucinate. Is because we are taught to surpress that inner child that eventually under times of stress it appears (well at least for my friend there father recently died and other traumas may have led to the episode,) I did also question this boundary between mental or normal, again society dictates that but if you saw someone having an episode at an electronic music festival u wouldn't think anything of it. I'm not trying to say that it's not disabling of course it is because, it doesn't work for our society, u need a job, u need to be stable and lucid. But I just don't think modern life have enough outlets for humans to connect with that natural instinct to go outside there body to go into a realm of make believe and fantasy, to let go of everything normal. I think Wikipedia also says men are more likely to have schizophrenia,,,,? Need to check that, anyway thanks for an informative article on a topic not talked about much