I usually write and rewrite long and arduous desperate attempts at getting this idea out of my head, so I'll try and keep this brief. I'm writing a story of two characters with different manifestations of Schizophrenia learning to coexist. I call it the two forms of Schizophrenia, Intellectual and Chaotic. I'm not claiming one is worse than the other, or that people can only have one. Its better to be seen as a spectrum. One I've been working on for who knows how long, but I recently put it into words as simple as I could without taking too much of your time. I'm still not sure where my symptoms land me on the spectrum. I was diagnosed almost two years ago and I've been making a very analytical plan of attack to wrangle my symptoms. 

Here's an excerpt from my notes:

	Jon is an example of the chaotic form of schizophrenia, a sudden onset of overwhelming symptoms later in life that can derail a normally functioning personality almost immediately. May is an example of the intellectual form of schizophrenia, a gradual onset of symptoms that takes place over a lifespan, forming their personality from the ground up. If the two were expressed as the pathogenesis of a viral infection, the chaotic form would be a latent virus that stays dormant in the host until some form of trigger would cause the virus to express itself suddenly, rapidly deteriorating the health of the host. Whereas the intellectual form of schizophrenia would be best described as a persistent viral infection that may also flare up occasionally, but the familiarity of the hosts immune system and the virus over a long period of time prevents the virus from a rapid expression and deterioration of the hosts health.