Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is one of the most common mental illnesses. It is a severe, chronic, and disabling brain disease. Schizophrenia is often mistaken for multiple personalities, or dissociative identity disorder. However, they are two different mental illnesses. Schizophrenia occurs when an individual splits off from reality and are unable to tell what is real and what is not real. An individual with schizophrenia has one personality, but that personality has split off from reality. It affects one percent of the population and affects men and women equally, but men tend to develop schizophrenia earlier in life.
The behavior of people with schizophrenia is very strange and shocking. To be diagnosed as having schizophrenia, an individual must have several symptoms. The symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, and abnormal speech. The delusions that occur are bizarre, false beliefs that seem real to the person, but in actuality do not exist. Another common......
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