Paper Topic:

Mental dissability

Running head : Mental Problems

Mental Problems : Successful Treatments

Rhea B . Gulin

p Medicine and Health

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a chronic , severe , and disabling HYPERLINK "http /www .schizophrenia .com /family /disease .htm " brain disease Approximately 1 percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime more than 2 million Americans suffer from the illness in a given year . Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency , the dis often appears earlier in men , usually in the late teens or early twenties , than in women , who are generally affected in

the twenties to early thirties . People with schizophrenia often suffer terrifying symptoms such as hearing internal voices not heard by others , or believing that other people are reading their minds controlling their thoughts , or plotting to harm them . These symptoms may leave them fearful and withdrawn . Their speech and behavior can be so disorganized that they may be incomprehensible or frightening to others Available treatments can relieve many symptoms , but most people with schizophrenia continue to suffer some symptoms throughout their lives it has been estimated that no more than one in five individuals recovers completely

As we walk on our streets , we always see beggars and other pitiful people . Some of them are not just homeless but also schizophrenic . They are the ones who are sometimes seems to be thinking blankly uttering something that nobody can understand except themselves shamelessly wear ridiculous clothes , or sometimes and many other things a normal individual would not ever dare to do...

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