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An overview of schizophrenia, including its signs and symptoms, diagnosis process, common misconceptions, and medications. It clarifies the difference between schizophrenia and did, debunks common myths, and highlights the fact that people with schizophrenia can lead productive lives with proper treatment.
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Hallucinations. These usually involve seeing or hearing things that don't exist
Disorganized thinking (speech). Disorganized thinking is inferred from disorganized speech.
At least two of five main symptoms.
Although schizophrenia can occur at any age, the average age of onset tends to be in the late teens to the early 20s for men, and the late 20s to early 30s for women.
There is no lab test that can diagnose schizophrenia. Instead, a healthcare provider has to evaluate the clinical course and symptoms of a person with this mental disorder over time.
People with this condition do not have multiple personalities. That is D.I.D.
If you have schizophrenia, you belong in a mental hospital.As long as you take your medication and stay on your treatment you can live in civialization
People with schizophrenia aren't smart. Look at John Nash. He was a professor and mathmatician.