schizophrenia

schizophrenia

Schizophrenia
By: Grant Gaddis
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. An estimated 1 percent of the population suffers from schizophrenia. Over 2 million Americans suffer from the illness each year. Although schizophrenia equally affects men as well as women , but the disorder frequently appears in men at an earlier age, usually in the late teens or the early twenties. Women are usually affected in their twenties or thirties. People who suffer from schizophrenia often hear internal voices not heard by others, believing that other people are trying to read their mind, people are controlling their thoughts, or are devising to harm them. By definition schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by indifference, withdrawal, hallucinations, and delusions of persecution and omnipotence, often with unimpaired intelligence. But treatments for this disease can relieve many of the symptoms, but most people even with the treatments suffer from some of the symptoms throughout the duration of their lives. It is estimated that even with the treatments only one out of five people recover completely, and often relapse. If you suspect that you are someone that is close to you suffers from this disease you should take them to see a doctor. A medical history will then be taken as well as a physical examination, these test will rule out other diseases that could produce the same symptoms as schizophrenia. Since commonly abused drugs could share the same symptoms of schizophrenia, urine samples and blood test will be taken at the hospital or the physicians office, to ensure that the schizophrenic-like behaviors are actually caused by schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia didn't come from a certain place or a specific region on the globe. There is no single known cause for schizophrenia. Other diseases, such as heart disease, result from a combination of genetic, behavioral, and other factors. Some of these factors could also contribute   to schizophrenia....