There is no helping this guy. I would love to be proven wrong and I'd wear the "****ing ignorant" badge with pride, but let's be realistic...

cant watch those adz videos, just the title of the first one "Matt Marafioti (@Adzizzy) Gets Framed By The Illuminati, Italian And Jewish Mobs Because Of Drake" shows how sad it's gotten for this poor bastard.

people with schizophrenia dont get better , they get medicated and relapse once they inevitably stop taking there meds. on the other hand though he really doesnt seem that crazy to be honest. his stories are consistant which is unusual for schizophrenia . there probably is truth to his stories. hes prob. not schizo prob manic depressive / paranoid.

You need to withhold your judgement & your prediction. Especially your prediction. Your ignorant findings are based on a video you watched & other 2nd/3rd-hand information.

You have no basis to write this [below quote] about a guy you've no personal knowledge of: Leave it out.

Looks like he has paranoid schizophrenia. He needs help, to suggest to have him on in this state seems despicable.

You're categorically wrong about people not recovering from schizophrenia. I don't want to go into details but I have first hand experience with it. People who get over the denial that's attached to having a mental illness and get the appropriate treatment have a good chance of recovery. The stigma that's attached to the illness makes people think that if someone has it they will be psychotic forever. It's not true. It's true though that some people go off their medication once they're feeling better, but at the same time some people keep eating terribly after being diagnosed with diabetes. Some people are just stubborn and don't have any insight into their own behavior and unfortunately that's a huge pitfall for those who suffer from schizophrenia. If you have a realistic view of your condition and are willing to work with doctors to find the right medication to treat your symptoms you have a very good chance of recovering. You shouldn't write off people diagnosed with it, they aren't crazy, they're just experiencing deficiencies and those deficiencies can be overcome. It happens all the time, there are healthcare professionals who dedicate their lives to it, you just don't hear about it much.

I do not have ties to any conspirators or organized crime syndicates as he claims, so at least some of it is delusion.

I thought about what you said and though usually I would agree with you, I think you are wrong here. He is posting these videos to youtube and clearly wants his voice to be heard.

was just reading over ADZ's twitter the other day it seems he's posted some proof that his parents are out to screw him over and that everyone behind the computer screens are jumping to conclusions about his mental health but it could be he's just totally paranoid schizo

This.

Fwiw I have not been one of the people taking the piss out of ADZ since this ordeal started and have actually stuck up for him multiple times in threads that have long since been locked or deleted.

That said it is all very interesting from an outsiders perspective whatever the reason for it. And it would be in no way exploiting Matt as he is actively trying to make sure as many people see/hear him as possible and will continue on doing so with or without the pod. So saying its despicable to want to see this occur in a semi controlled environment with a 2 way conversation if not for anything else but to get some clarity on the situation is pretty ****ing ******ed imo.

I'm also of the mind all you idiots should stop having multiple page arguments about schitzophrenia and causes, turning every thread his name is bought up in into a ****show and derailing whatever is actually being discussed. I know most of you are coming from a good place by doing this but is it really necessary?

Not sure if people can recover from schizophrenia, but I hope this thread can recover from AIDS

ive seen a lifetime of what this disorder does. im no expert by anymeans but having a realistic view of their disorder is like the last thing schizoprrenics have. im sure there are outliers though. but if i had to guess i wouldnt say he has full blown schizophrenia. fwiw.

i wasnt saying what he said was true ( i would have no idea) i was just saying his stories have a theme and stay relatively the same ( from what ive seen). schizophrenics usually make no sense whatsoever if they can even get coherent sentences out. ( from what ive seen) when there having episodes.

btw I'm in no way saying he doesn't have issues I believe in his video he also acknowledges the fact he has issues all I'm saying is this is something he is going to clearly continue publishing to the world by his own choice anyway regardless of if he is on a podcast or not

This is also a fair point

Dude, of course he wants to be heard, he believes there's a conspiracy out there and his life is in danger.

Giving him a platform where he can share his delusions with a larger audience is not going to help him get better, it can only make his state worse. It would be morally heinous to try to put a spotlight on him for the poker scene's amusement when he's clearly in a state where he's vulnerable and literally incapable of thinking straight. He has a mental illness and that's never by choice.

When a schizophrenic is actively psychotic, no, they probably don't have a realistic view of their condition. After treatment (which involves intervention and a process where a trained psychiatrist tries to assess which medication will work best) it's 100% within the realm of possibilities that a patient will come to understand what they're experiencing and work towards recovery. Recovery depends on a lot of things, but it happens all the time and like I said in my last post you shouldn't write people off. You said it yourself, you aren't an expert. Asserting that people who have schizophrenia can't get better is irresponsible and wrong. This is my last post concerning this.

I agree 100%.

Schizophrenics can have delusions that are consistent.

These posts should be moved to another thread.

If you check out his instagram posts over the last year or so it's clear that he is losing it. Not sure if he cleaned it up but last time I checked it was filled with paranoid delusional babble about his parents trying to poison him and Drakes OVO crew trying to mess with him etc etc I wish him well but guy clearly needs help.

I'll say what I want buddy. This guy is a lunatic.

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I believe ADZ.

Good luck Papi!

let's see if the podcast rungood is really real!

My uncle once got real paranoid and delusional, thinking my grandmother was trying to poison him. That was not so much about schizophrenia as it was just copious amounts of amphetamines. Just fwiw

And podcast rungood ftw imo

But do you know Drake?

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