Schizophrenia
Introduction
Like any other mental disorder, schizophrenia is a mental disorder with specific symptoms. Often, schizophrenics are misunderstood by society as being violent and dangerous, partly because of how media portrays them. This, of course, does not give society the right to discriminate all schizophrenics as violent. Hence, all schizophrenics are not violent however, some are violent due to various reasons such as people with criminal record before schizophrenia, substance abusers and paranoid schizophrenics.
What is schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder. In Greek, schizo means splitting' and phrenia means of the mind.' It is a mental condition that is difficult for an individual to distinguish between reality and imagination. Schizophrenia has no bound in choosing its victims and it is not preventable. Life of a schizophrenic is terrifying because for them, reality and fantasy constantly merge.
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