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TIL American soul singer Donny Hathaway was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and prescribed with 14 different medications. He believed that white people were trying to kill him and connect his brain to a machine to steal his voice/music. In 1979, he committed suicide by jumping from a balcony

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