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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a very complex disorder in the brain. It is incurable, but treatable to live a close to a normal life. There are five different kinds of schizophrenia. They each have different symptoms. The positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia are also easy to mistake for other diseases or disorde ....
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.... responses or to behave normally in social situations”(Schizophrenia, 1). This disease affects about 1 percent of the world population. 2.5 million people in the United States have this disease. “Schizophrenia affects men and women equally, however, its onset in women is typically five years later than with men.”(Puharic, 2). Symptoms usually appear between the ages of 15 and 35, but often appear earlier in males than it does females (Walsh, 2).
There are a few things that schizophrenia is not. It’s not a split-personality, or caused by bad parenting or personal weak ....
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