Varies

Schizophrenia

I . Introduction

If the phobias and depression are the common colds of psychological diss , chronic schizophrenia is the cancer . About 1 in 100 people will develop schizophrenia , joining the millions who have suffered one of humanity 's most dreaded diss . Schizophrenia is a psychotic dis , in which a person loses contact with reality by experiencing grossly irrational ideas and distorted perceptions . Schizophrenia typically first strikes during adolescence or young adulthood it knows no national boundaries and it affects the two sexes about equally

This intent to (1 ) understand what

schizophrenia really is (2 know causes of schizophrenia and (2 ) aware how an individual can be schizophrenic

II . Background

A . Understanding Psychological Dis

Imagine yourself living hundreds or thousands of years ago . How might you have accounted for the behavior of a James Oliver Huberty ? To explain puzzling behavior , our ancestors often presumed that strange forces - the movements of stars , godlike powers , or evil sprits - were at work . The devil made him to do it ' you might have said . The cure might have been to get rid of the evil force - by exorcising the demon or even by chipping a hole in the skull to allow the evil spirit to escape . Until the last two centuries , mad ' people were sometimes caged in zoolike conditions or given therapies ' appropriate to a demon . Dised people have been beaten , burned , and the clitoris cauterized . They have had their own blood removed and replaced with transfusions of animal blood (Farina , 2002

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