[slibhb]

Sounds like a manic episode. Symptoms include extreme grandiosity and hallucinations. Often a manic person will believe he is God, is in contact with God, or has a special part to play in history.

[shrimp_emoji]

God, Government, and Aliens: the schizo trinity

And talking donkeys if you're Muhammad! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%CA%BDf%C5%ABr

[iraqmtpizza]

These days it's definitely atheists which are the most schizo w.r.t. searching for, or at least ruminating about, aliens, despite all evidence against it. Another very schizo atheist topic is AI (basilisks etc).

Could be their affinity for strong weed.

[nick7376182]

Having been through manic episodes, I concur.

[grugagag]

Although it sounds somewhat similar to manic episodes keep in mind that they come with a depressive crash afterwards.

The brain is more complex than a mere mental condition which we still don’t fully understand.

[sandspar]

There are "nervous breakdowns" which only happen once. Many historical figures have had them.

But on your larger point about fuzzy diagnoses I agree with you. In my experience, diseases like schizophrenia are better understood as a large number of unique diseases under a single heading. Saying "I have schizophrenia" is like saying "I own a dog". While an accurate statement, there are many different kinds of dogs, and their behavior varies widely. Schizophrenia is the same.

If you've spent time with groups of people with schizophrenia, you'll see that there's an extremely wide range of outcomes. I think the wide range of outcomes may be explained by there being a number of different diseases.

[nick7376182]

Not always. Unipolar mania used to be in previous revisions of the DSM and bipolar type 1 can exhibit as mania without intervening depression.