It's been awhile since you wrote this, but I felt like needing to reply here.
I'm also a young woman struck with schizophrenia at an early age (16 is when I was diagnosed). And 'unusually intelligent'. (Which really he's not as smart as he thinks he is, he's articulate but not genius level.)
Mental illness is not a get out of jail free card. I've done things I'm not proud of while in thrall to auditory hallucinations and paranoid thinking, but this is never the fault of the person I harmed. Instead of asking for pity, he should be apologizing sincerely (not this fauxpology bullshit), and doing what he can to minimize impacting others in the future.
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I'm also a young woman struck with schizophrenia at an early age (16 is when I was diagnosed). And 'unusually intelligent'. (Which really he's not as smart as he thinks he is, he's articulate but not genius level.)
Mental illness is not a get out of jail free card. I've done things I'm not proud of while in thrall to auditory hallucinations and paranoid thinking, but this is never the fault of the person I harmed. Instead of asking for pity, he should be apologizing sincerely (not this fauxpology bullshit), and doing what he can to minimize impacting others in the future.