Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disease whose patients experience illogical and confused thought patterns, hearing internal voices not heard by others, or beliefs that other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them

Some symptoms of schizophrenia include:

• Changes in work performance/social relationships
  
• Confused thinking
  
• Hallucinations and delusions
• Unusual perceptions
  

- 75% of patients develop schizophrenia between the ages of 15-25

- Schizophrenia affects men and women equally

- 150 of every 100,000 people will develop schizophrenia

- Schizophrenia is NOT "Split Personality"

- Approximately 10% of people with schizophrenia (especially
  younger adult males) commit suicide

- With treatment, the symptoms of schizophrenia can be controlled,
   and recovery is often possible in those who receive prompt,
   continuous treatment and rehabilitation

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