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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness, and is probably the most distressing and disabling of the severe mental disorders. Schizophrenia affects between 1 and 2% of all people during their lifetime. ... Schizophrenia is also the single most destructive disease to young people with men and women being at equal risk of developing the illness.
The first signs of schizophrenia typically emerge in adolescence or young adulthood. ... People with schizophrenia suffer from difficulties in their thought processes. “Psychosis” is a common condition in schizophrenia and is a state of mental impairment marked by hallucinations, which are disturbances of sensory perception, and/or delusions, which are false yet strongly held personal beliefs that result from an inability to separate real from unreal experiences. ...
Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is not a split personality. However, people with schizophrenia may have perceptions of reality that are extremely different from that shared by others around them. ...
People with schizophrenia usually experience two types of symptoms that are known as positive and negative symptoms. ... The negative symptoms are psychological capabilities that most people possess, but which people with schizophrenia have
lost. ...
Despite clear evidence, some people still believe that schizophrenia is caused by poor parenting or weak will power. ... Schizophrenia is a complex illness, which is thought to be due to a number of different factors acting together. ... Other effects may also be important, but no one factor can be said to be the cause of schizophrenia. ...
Most psychiatric disorders are very difficult to diagnose, and schizophrenia is no exception. There have been no tests that can positively identify someone as having schizophrenia. The diagnosis depends on excluding other causes that bring about schizophrenia-like symptoms such as drug abuse, epilepsy, brain tumors and thyroid dysfunction.
Approximate Word count = 1353
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