Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is affecting people more now than a few decades ago. This illness is across the US and is present in every culture. People are now aware and understand how the illness can be devastating to one’s life. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder of the brain but it is highly treatable. In the US the total amount of people affected with the illness is about 2.2 % of the adult population. The average number of people affected per 1000 total population is 7.2 % per 1000, which means a city that is consists of 3 million people will have approxiamately 21,000 people suffering from schizophrenia. People with mental illness should seek early treatment to be stabilized with medications. During a 10 year period 25% of schizophrenics completely recovered, and another 25% much improved and become independent, while 15% were hospitalized and unimproved, and 10% die due to suicide. Since most schizophrenics recover from the illness and lives independently, some are not so fortunate. Where are some of the people with schizophrenia? Its about 6% are homeless and lives in shelters, another 6% lives in jails or prisons and 5 to 6% lives in hospitals, while 25% lives with family members, 28% are living independently and 20% lives in supervised housing or group homes. The aim of this research paper is t o discover and explore how schizophrenics lives on a daily bases with mental illness and how the effects can be devastating to themselves and family members. According to researchers, schizophrenia can be cured through extensive treatment, family support, medications and constant psychiatric evaluations. My findings also have proven the researchers to be accurate on their analysis. The results are overwhelming for schizophrenia patients ...

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...many times schizophrenics may seem wondering about the voices in their heads because it is compelling to respond.

Disorganized Speech is a disorder of thought content. A person forms a group of words and communicative sounds but is unable to speak effectively for people to understand. Some people may form new words that is not real or found in the dictionary. It’s just a word that seems important to them which can confuse others.

Schizophrenics displays Catatonic Behavior rapidly they are unable to take care of themselves and have problems functioning. Some may not value life any longer and walk into traffic or unable to maintained a good personal hygiene. Some schizophrenics may display silly behaviors such as wearing a coat, scarf or long boots in a hot sunny weather. Others may appear disturbed in public, looking sad, or talking silly things to others.