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From C.W. Please know that after reading your article that I do not believe your mother is schizophrenic. Instead other elements might be at fault. Perhaps the neighbors want your family to run away from your home selling it for a cheaper price. Also, people take for granted that all people everywhere will allow other people to live aside them in peace under most circumstances and despite the lack of social support. Life doesn't have to be that way; in life tunnel vision is not within the social norms. Neighbors can accept or reject other people simply because they want to. I believe as long as your mother doesn't intentionally go after people for the sake of hurting them because she believes they are evil, bewitched or for some other amazing reason, or hear voices in her head other than her own, i don't believe she is mentally ill. I live around mentally ill people and now realize that they cause problems for society and need medication to stop destruction acts. You never mentioned whether or not your mother goes out to destroy other people's property because of voices. This would be a sure sign of schizophrenia. Bye.