In season 6 episode 3 of Grey’s Anatomy there is a patient who comes in from a car crash. It is a mother and son, the son is a paranoid schizophrenic and believes everyone who is trying to help it is trying to hurt him. Throughout the episode he thinks there are cameras watching him, people laughing at him, and does not let anyone touch him. The mother ends up needing surgery but does not want to do it because she does not want to leave her son alone. She cannot leave him with anyone and tells doctors she needs to train someone in order to take care of him. Both the son and mother end up getting surgery together so that they will be together through the whole process.

There are no specific causes for this mental illness, but some social and environmental factors can play into it. Also if someone goes through trauma this can also cause them to become schizophrenic. Mostly people with a family history of schizophrenia are ones with the highest risk. There is a lot of social judgements when someone has this mental illness, many people think they are crazy and do not usually think they have a mental illness but that they do drugs or other things like that. Usually when people see other people being paranoid they just think they are crazy or weird and do not talk or be around them.