Do you know what triggered it?
Hereditary, which was one of the main reasons in the letter that I got (a lot of us got letters from her afterwards)
I guess when it's a hereditary thing you are way more likely to pass it down to your kids, and wanting kids was a really big thing in her life... So when the symptoms hit it devastated her. I don't know everything about schizophrenia but I guess she had like the genetic predisposition to pass it down because she had it, whereas it would have been less likely had it ran in her family. I'm not sure I'm not a doctor, I just know what she wrote in the note.
For some people its stuff like Marijuana that can trigger symptoms.
Which is what pisses me off so much about people jerking themselves off about how marijuana is this completely safe wonder drug. It's like dude shut the fuck up, all mind-altering substances can cause damage and pose a risk.