can fear of schizophrenia actually cause it?

I'm quite sure it can't. I don't know for certain, of course. My understanding is the schizophrenia is a physical thing in your brain that is just...there...at some point, it triggers, by situation, or age, hormone levels, whatever, and then it's blooms. But if it's not...there...to begin with, you can't just get it, based on circumstances and your own fears.

Mind, I can see anxiety about it making you think that you have it. I've convinced myself many times that I have appendicitis, when I very clearly don't *lol*