Back to category: Medical

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia A Tragic 2
Imagine a voice instructing you to meet a friend at a park, right away and apologize to them for planning on dating their girlfriend or boyfriend. Although you had no plan of doing so you do as your instructed, arriving at the park at 2 a.m. The park is deserted and you dismiss the incident as an overactive imagination. You go on with your ever day activities but the voices keep intruding. Eventually you start to see visions of bloody images, cut-up people, and dismembered bodies. You don’t know who or what to believe you’re at odds with reality. Your positive that the visions and voices are real, you don’t know who to trust, what is real, and why this is happening to you. To the person with schizophrenia the voices and visions sound and look as authentic as the announcer on the radio and the cupboards in the kitchen. 2.5 million Americans have the disease, which transcends economic status, education, geography and even the love of family (G...

Posted by: Gina Allred

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.