Schizophrenia
The term “schizophrenia” is often misused in colloquial language. When a person appears perfectly normal at one time and suddenly changes into a different person, he is frequently described as schizophrenic or “schizo”. An example of this might be someone who is typically a wallflower, but suddenly becomes the life of the party on a particular night. Rather than accepting the behavior as simply a part of human nature, the unusual behavior is jokingly attributed to the existence of another personality within that individual. It bothers me to hear the term bandied about so casually and callously. Schizophrenia has touched our family in a profound way. My great-uncle was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1987. He experienced a psychotic break, an episode during which he lost all sense of reality, and behaved in a dangerous and bizarre fashion. Over time, he had become convinced that some of his neighbors were trying to harm him in some way. He literally hid inside his home, trying to convince others that no one was there. Finally, one night he concealed himself in some bushes outside his bedroom window. He had rubbed dirt on his face to further camouflage himself, and was armed with a semiautoma
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Approximate Word count = 853
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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