Another story involving schizophrenia was the case of Stephen Maguire, a doctoral student in mathematics attending the University of Illinois, located in Urbana Champaign, began to realize early in his life that sometimes, while walking home from school or anywhere, generally just walking down the streets, the streets always seemed unusually empty to him. This gave him feelings of insecurity and danger that would bother him greatly and would lead him to want to walk "in a snake-like pattern to make it difficult for someone to try to shoot him and to help him avoid being shot." But he knew that his thinking was very different and strange because there was no reason why anyone would want to shoot him or that anyone was out there to shoot him just to shoot him, but the thoughts continued to take place and they really bothered him. Last year in the spring, Stephen once again found himself in a psychiatric hospital in Houston, Texas. Sixteen years earlier, when he was eighteen, he had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder...
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