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A 10 page paper which provides a generalized overview of
schizophrenia. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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the social world in any reasonable manner. They rarely hold down jobs for any length of time and their personal relationships suffer a great deal as well. In addition, they
frighten the "normal" people in society because they are different and more often than not misunderstood. The following paper examines the condition known as schizophrenia. The sections presented are symptoms,
causes or links to the disease, treatment, and family. The last section, family, examines how schizophrenia affects family members of someone diagnosed with schizophrenia. Symptoms "Its symptoms include
hallucinations, delusions, apathy, and distorted emotional expression. Symptoms usually first appear in adolescence and young adulthood," though there are apparently forms which have a tendency to hit people in their
20s-30s and sometimes can be short lived (Bower 164). Mots schizophrenics possess a personality which "is seriously disorganized, but not split as is often thought, and contact with reality is
usually impaired" (Drury NA). Drury makes note of the film most people are familiar with, "A Beautiful Mind," which portrays a schizophrenic man who was able to "handle his constant
hallucinations and delusions to win a Nobel Prize in physics" (NA). This story, though true, is not necessarily representative of all that schizophrenia is: "While the severity of the illness
varies greatly in individuals, most people diagnosed with schizophrenia will usually suffer from one or more of its symptoms. The symptoms that require hospitalization occur during the acute stage
and they are: delusions, a false belief that cannot be corrected by reason; hallucinations, usually in the form of nonexistent voices; disorganized speech, with frequent derailments or incoherence; and grossly
disorganized or catatonic behavior" (Drury NA). In general "People living with schizophrenia are often robbed of the pleasures in life, and they have less ability to experience feelings. Long-term
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