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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia: a disorder with impairments to reality, disturbances of perception and false thoughts such as hallucinations, delusions, stimuli (hearing voices) and seeing things that are not there (B, Dave). It is a disorder without a preference that has no logical explanation. Although signs of having schizophrenia commonly show itself in early adolescents, it can affect anyone no matter race, age or gender at any time in their life. Throughout the world one percent of today’s population suffer from schizophrenia, approximately 3.3 million are Americans and 0 have ever been cured. There are multiple medications that can help keep schizophrenia under control but it is still far from the requirements to develop a cure.
“Schizo” meaning split and “phrenia” meaning mind. Together; the splitting of one’s mind. It is a devastating disorder that alters the mind into confusion on how to distinguish what is real and what is fake. Often time it prevents schizophrenics from doing normal day to day work. The mind of a schizophrenic varies in severity, one moment he/she can be completely silent and the next hear voices from unreal things that lead one to panic. The cause of schizophrenia is not completely understood however, signs show schizophrenia may be caused by the interaction between genetic and environmental factors. It has been suggested that inherited genes make a person more vulnerable to Schizophrenia and then environmental factors act on this vulnerability to trigger the disorder. (Mendoza, Nia). A person with a blood related family member has a ten percent greater chance of getting schizophrenia than a person who does not. However those who are genetically related to someone with schizophrenia does not always de...

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...ften times very silent or disconnected while talking (Smith, Melinda).

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"Delusion - What Is Delusion?" Delusion - What Is Delusion? N.p., 02 Jan. 2014. Web. 02 Jan. 2014.
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Mendoza, Nia C. "Research Paper on Schizophrenia." Scribd. Nia Mendoza, 12 Mar. 2010. Web. 02 Jan. 2014.
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