Schizophrenia in Latin literally means “Shattered Mind” because even in the Roman empire it was known that mental illnesses exist. Fortunately understandings of mental and psychiatric conditions have improved to the point we have more accurate understandings of what causes them and why a person may have one. Rather than the old understanding of spiritualism we understand that brain chemistry, irregularities in the brain or certain parts of the brain behaving differently than they should would cause a person to suffer from a mental illness. Other things may be caused by traumatic events such as dissociation and PTSD.

The good news is that none of these conditions will follow you through to the next life. It’s possible that you may inherit some patterns in your next life that you developed while living as a person with a mental illness, but it would not be as bad as really having that illness. For example if you live with Autism in this life and are bothered by changing routines, you may have similar routines in your next life but without the frustration and anger you would have before. If you developed PTSD you may avoid things in the next life that would have reminded you of the event in your past life, but you will not feel the same negative emotions you carried then.

Death is also something that the gods may not allow to happen if it contradicts the planned fate of anyone. Souls who commit suicide for the motives of incarnating into a better life may be punished for abusing the system of reincarnation, and may not be allowed back until the time where they supposed to die naturally (If they even manage to complete it successfully). You may find yourself surviving the most unlikely situations where you should have died, and the reason is that you could not change the path your soul was supposed to take in this life in order to make events happen that were required. An example is when Stalin attempted to resign multiple times but ultimately was unable to.