Schizophrenia
“The voices told me that aliens do exist” a person diagnosed with schizophrenia might say. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder with many different symptoms. Accurately, the definition means “split mind” and schizophrenics are often stereotyped as two people living in one body. However this is a misconception made by lack of knowledge and research; schizophrenia is not split personality-when a person acts like two different people. Schizophrenia is in fact, according to the Encarta Encyclopedia 2000, the “a severe psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, often with delusions, and hallucinations and withdrawal into the self”. To be put bluntly, schizophrenia is when a person confuses reality with their fantasies.The symptoms of schizophrenia often occur in the thoughts, perceptions, feelings, movements, and individual relationships of a person. Many schizophrenics are often considered a failure in making logical explanations in association to the reality. Hallucinations, also a key symptom, are often categorized as either hearing one's thoughts spoken aloud or hearing imaginary voices making comments. Although most hallucinations are of voices and noises, there are c
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