Reply #124: Not so fast...

[Feron]

There are two types of Schizophrenia:

Type 1 is the one we are familiar with and it has what are called positive symptoms. In this case, neurotransmitters are affected.

Type 2 is the schizophrenia with the negative symptoms like catatonia and waxy flexiblity. Waxy flexiblity basically means that if you put the type 2 schizophrenic person in one position, he or she won't move at all out of that position.

Type 2 is the schizophrenia with the abnormal brain structures like the picture above.

Anyhow the guy was most likely just a plain old murderous asshole. You don't have to be mentally ill in order to be one.

If you want to know why mental illness still has a stigma, then take a look at the people who insist that in order to commit a heinous crime you must have some sort of mental illness.