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John is seen on the campus grounds, without Charles, interacting with his peers. Time has passed and John has not attended classes. It also appears that his bizarre thinking has increased as a peer refers to John as “psycho,” and there is a bizarreness in John’s appearance as John is wearing sneakers, white socks and ill fitting pants as he sits next to his peers who all have leather shoes and stylish clothing. The stress of the competition is reinforced as Martin defeats John in a mathematical board game while also reminding John that two colleagues, Bender and Sol, have published a paper and Martin, himself, has two papers under review. The defeat causes John to rush away from his peers with a very obvious physical clumsiness.

The appearance of physical clumsiness may occur along with other changes like problems with attention and social withdrawal during, what was mentioned earlier as, the prodromal phase of the illness. This period occurs for some time prior to full-blown psychosis. Thus, John, like many other people with schizophrenia, appears to be ill for some time before his psychotic symptoms appear. Psychotic symptoms usually occur later in the disease process (Harvard Mental Health Letter - H, 2008, p. 1).