Telepathy is mental connection, ability to speak and to listen to people's mind, what causes schizophrenia is thinking more than just your mind is able to connect with another person. For example the Heart, or feelings, are thought by schizophrenics to be able to connect or are connected to other people. Also a schizophrenic has believed that his inner person, or soul, was able to connect with another person. These both cause illness and believing these for too long can lead to alot of delusional ideas. The last part of the illness is: that people aren't able to tell the difference between their thoughts and feelings, a easy cure is, anything that is not plainly a feeling is a thought. Thoughts do generate feelings.