Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder. It is a mental disease, in which patients experience personality changes and damage the persons social activities. Wich provokes anxiety on themselves and their families.
People who suffer from schizophrenia have different symptoms, it depends on the type of the illness. But in common they suffer of hearing and cenestesic hallucinations, they can feel as if their were possesed by somebody else, feel that the rest of the people can hear or know what they are thinking, and also they can tell that they feel as some part of their body is changing.
They have disorganised and abnormal thinking, behaviour and language and become emotionally unresponsive or withdrawn.
Sciencetist still dosen´t know how people get this illness. Some researches have demosntrate that genes may play an important role because you are more likely to get schizophrenia if somebody in your family has this disorder. There is an hipothesis developed by some sciencetist which says that schizophrenia sufferers have some parts of the brain that have not developed in the normal way, an finally environmental factors as poverty, stress, drug abuse, can also play a role.
Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic (long-term) brain disorder which interferes with the ability to think clearly, separate fantasy from reality, handle emotions, make decisions and relate to other people. Although schizophrenia is treatable, relapses are common and the illness may never fully resolve.
Despite extensive research there is still no known "cure" for schizophrenia. However, the outlook for people with schizophrenia has improved greatly in the last few decades and many people can be treated outside hospital and live within the community for most of their lives.
In addition anti-psychotic medicines are available to treat the worst symptoms of the illness, such as hallucinations, but there is no "cure" at present.
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Hi Consuelo,
Thank you for giving such a detailed explanation of the illness you read about. Schizophrenia would be a very difficult disease to deal with, beginning with the anxiety it provokes, both personally and within a family. I can't imagine feeling these symptoms, such as feeling as if you are possessed by somebody else. It's too bad that scientists still don't know how people develop schizophrenia, but it's good to know that treatment has improved in the past few decades. Thanks for your post.
-Chelsea
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