schizophrenia

What is schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is the most chronic and limiting brain disorder among the most serious mental illnesses. People with schizophrenia usually have frightening symptoms, such as hearing internal voices that no one else hears, or believing that other people are reading or controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them.

Signs and symptoms

The first signs of schizophrenia are usually seen in young people in their teens or twenties; In rare cases, the disorder is manifested in childhood. Symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, delusions, disorganized thinking, speech or behavior that have some kind of abnormality, and inward convergence, which reduces the ability to function socially.

Treatment

Schizophrenia has treatments that are capable of relieving many of the symptoms, but most sufferers continue to suffer from some symptoms throughout their lives. However, advances in treatment research, especially in the last decade, have improved the lives of people with schizophrenia.