Schizophrenia: an overview

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that impacts how a person feels and acts. People with schizophrenia seem like they have lost touch with reality and have a disturbed life which can affect them and their friends, and family. Schizophrenia usually causes delusions which means false beliefs, and hallucinations, which means seeing and hand hearing things that do not exist in real life. For schizophrenia, it is common to have disorganized thinking and speech. It is also common for schizophrenia to have paranoid thoughts and hear voices. People with schizophrenia often have difficulties working in the community, job, school, and in relationships. 

This chronic disease does not have a complete cure still with proper treatments, it can be managed and maintained. Some people think schizophrenia is a split personality or multiple personality disorder, but this is not true because schizophrenia involves psychosis (in which you can’t tell which is real and which is imaginary) so people with schizophrenia don’t know which is real and which is fictional.That is why they say people with schizophrenia lost touch with reality. A schizophrenic world may blend confusing thoughts, images, and voices.

  People with schizophrenia show bizarre behavior sudden change in their behavior and personality is called a psychotic episode. The rigor of schizophrenia varies from person to person some people have one psychotic episode during their entire life, and some may have many psychotic episodes. Researchers prove that schizophrenia may affect mostly men as compared to women and this ratio is equal all around the world. That may start between 16 to 20. people with schizophrenia may not know that they have this until they confer with a doctor or a counselor. If they notice any change they will blame it on stress or any event related to these symptoms.