Makes me think of Terry Davis and Bobby Fischer. Mental illness can make it hard to be compassionate, but it is still illness.
Robert Sapolsky also has an incredibly interesting couple of lectures on YT on schizophrenia. As it turns out it's actually recognizable in vastly different cultures, though not necessarily by concrete behaviors or mannerisms, but by persistent extremely erratic and destructive behavior. I can't recall the exact example at the moment, but I think it was something like "you killed the goat outside of the 'slaughering' season and covered yourself in its blood".