As a person who has psychotic episodes (from organic brain disease, rather than schizophrenia), I can also attest to this. I had episodic psychosis around times where my brain disorder was more intense, and I thought that there was nothing wrong in the fact that I kept thinking people were "staring me in the face too long", or that I felt people were paying an inordinate amount of attention to my presence. Like, in a creepy, weird way, not in the "oh shit look at all of these people watching me be fabulous, way".

Only until I started meds for my brain disorder (years after its emergence) did I realize that I was having some pretty fantastic persecutory delusions. And at no point during these psychotic episodes did I ever think I was wrong or overthinking things, or that I could be sick.

Now I'm on meds for the disorder, it stops psychotic episodes pretty much as well.

There's a real sense of evolution of psychosis when you're a sufferer who's been treated, the kind of narrative that Andy totally lacks.