It's very common in paranoid schizophrenics to have areas of significant impairment and islands where cognitive skills are preserved.

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Most people don't like to think of themselves as nuts, ... It's common to shut off the part of memory that describes illness.

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During this period, I consider him chronically and severely psychotic, ... But it would be disingenuous for me to say that at any given particular moment he was psychotic.

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