I will answer your question but first let me share a somewhat personal story.

I have an older cousin with Schizophrenia. He used to have a good-paying, not really demanding job in the public sector. He is an only child and lived with his parents his whole life until the day they died. I should mention that when he was young (according to my family members) he was really good looking and smart, with an IQ of at least 140, he got tested in school and he was the top student. To outsiders he appeared to be just an ordinary person, just slightly weird.

He had his first major Schizophrenia episode at the age of around 30. He disappeared and was found many days later naked in a mountain, in an animal-like state. He was taken to a psychiatric clinic, got electrotherapy (don't know the exact name sorry) and put on drugs for the first time in his life. Later, he claimed that he was looking for his alien parents and he missed the alien spaceship that would take him to them for seconds. He was released from the clinic and he lived a somewhat normal and productive life until about the age of 50ish, when both his parents died.

They left him with a huge heritage, over 1.000.000 dollars in bank accounts and 3 houses. As I mentioned before, he also had a nice govermental job. So he had a lot of money. But no real friends, no close relatives, no nothing to keep an eye on him. We guess he stopped taking his meds at some point and all went downhill.

5 year fast forward, he had no money, and had sold 2 out of the three houses. And all his credit cards were red. Where did he spend all that money? Women? Travelling? Gambling? No! It's somewhat funny. He spend all that money buying kid toys, books, movie dvds, computers, hunting &survival tools, useless gadgets, anything you can imagine! Thousands of them! And you know the strange part? He didn't even unbox them. We were warned by his workplace that he had gone missing for months and we discovered all these stuff in their boxes, unsealed!

The good thing is that we managed to somehow get him back on track and payed all his cards. Now he lives near us and he has a nice pension.. But no real friends, no people to talk (other than us), no wife, no kids no nothing.

He was good looking. He was smart. His parents were super rich and left him a huge fortune. More than what most people need to be happy. He could have everything he wanted with very little effort. But instead, he will die alone with no real friends, spending his last two decades of his life miserable, maybe thinking of how he f***** everything up. Perhaps still haunted by his demons, despite the meds he is taking...

So.. What do I know about Schizophrenia? I know it sucks