Schizophrenics experience symptoms such as hallucinations, disorganised speech and strange delusions.
It is a thought disorder that affects 1 in 100 persons worldwide. What this means is that there is a very high chance that you have someone who suffers from it living on your street. Or if you look a little closer there might
be a relative, close or distant, that is battling it.
The first time it manifests in most People is during their late teenage years to their early twenties.
It is not perculia to people of any culture, race or socio-economic background.
The five subtypes of schizophrenia include Paranoid, Disorganised, Catatonic Undifferentiated and Residual Schizophrenia.
People who suffer from Schizophrenia experience stigmatization the most because unlike some other mental illnesses its symptoms cannot be concealed.
It is believed by psychiatrists to be both a biologically and psychosocially based disorder. Evidence shows sufferers are people who are genetically prone to schizophrenia but external factors serve as triggers. However no gene responsible for Schizophrenia has been discovered.
Schizophrenia is a treatable disorder. A Psychiatric hospital is the only place that's solution lies.