Schitzophrnia

Schizophrenia is a chronic and disabling brain disease, affecting about one percent of the population. It is ¡§marked by severe distortion and disorganization of thought, perception, and affect, by bizarre behavior and by social withdrawal.¡¨ 1

Although schizophrenia has likely been around for a very long time, it wasn¡¦t recognized as a disease until the late 19th century. In 1896, Emil Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, made the first medical breakthrough in this specific disease by listing symptoms of it. Kraeplin was familiar in the field and was famed for his work with the mentally ill. The term schizophrenia was first used by Eugene Blauer to describe this disorder in 1911. Although this word, in Greek, means, ¡§split mind¡¨, it doesn¡¦t mean that schizophrenics had split personalities. It refers to how schizophrenics split themselves from reality through delusions and hallucinations of the mind.

There are many causes of schizophrenia and many factors ...