Schizophrenia

"The Gand known as Zuckuss is clearly schizophrenic and exhibits multiple personality disorder."

- Gawynn Karastee

Schizophrenia was a severe mental illness that was often characterized by delusions and hallucinations. Sufferers would sometimes demonstrate a proclivity to violent behavior. This condition was known to affect a wide range of species, particularly Aleena, Gands, and Humans.

Characteristics
"Eh, my friend? What's that? Oh, yes. He stinks of Sith, all right. But what's he doing here now? Haven't I suffered enough?"

- Kazdan Paratus speaking to his junk mannequin of Yoda

Schizophrenia was a mental illness that would afflict its sufferers with delusions and hallucinations. These hallucinations were often auditory, manifesting as voices. Some schizophrenics would have visual hallucinations, as exemplified by the Aleena Jedi Kazdan Paratus, who believed that his junk constructs of the Jedi Council were actual living individuals.

Schizophrenics would sometimes exhibit violent behavior. Victor Jun, an Alliance recruiter, would often act on the orders given to him by the voices in his head, which sometimes involved murder. The Gand findsman Zuckuss also suffered from schizophrenia. Comorbid with his multiple personality disorder, the condition contributed to his violent outbursts.

Lieutenant Lowen Chase developed a schizoid personality at the hands of Doctor Langstyn Kraay. The mental torture he endured led to the development of paranoid delusions and egotism.

Behind the scenes
Due to its derivation from Greek for "split-mind," schizophrenia, in media, is sometimes depicted similarly to dissociative identity disorder. For example, in both the The Official Star Wars Fact File 61 and the Star Wars: The Official Starships & Vehicles Collection 8, Zuckuss's multiple-personality disorder was combined with his schizophrenic diagnosis to be a single disorder. However, each of these conditions have different diagnostic criteria and symptoms and are not the same disorder.