Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic, and often disabling brain disease that is described as a psychosis -- a type of illness that causes severe mental disturbances that disrupt normal thought, speech, and behavior. Although the term means “split mind”, this disease is not a split-personality disorder. Some symptoms of schizophrenia include shocking or radical changes in behavior, decreased emotional arousal, mental activity, and inability to socialize. Schizophrenics also often report a sense of strangeness …showed first 75 words of 691 total…

…showed last 75 words of 691 total…understand their disease and re-enter society and family life. Other treatments include family education programs—to help the family recognize the disease and know how to act with the patient, and rehabilitation programs such as such as vocational and job training, money management skills training, and social skills training. However well these treatments may work for many patients, not everyone is affected by them so there is no sure-fire cure for schizophrenia up until now.