Schizophrenia

Title: Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is one of the most common mental illnesses. Approximately 1 to 2 percent of the world's population develops this disease with in their life time. The syndrome was first described as a single disorder by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin. Schizophrenia is a chronic disease that can possibly happen to anyone, it has no boundaries. It has many symptoms and subtypes to go along with it. When diagnosing schizophrenia the patient has to have the disease for …showed first 75 words of 1020 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1020 total…come in many forms which leave much of it a mystery to people. Scientists are still trying to find better ways to understand and maybe even cure the illness. At this point anything is possible especially helping people with this disease and giving them hope. Bibliography: Bengtson, Michael. "Types of Schizophrenia." Psych Central. 30th March 2001. <http://psychcentral.com/library/schizo_subtypes.htm> Chapman, Loren J. "Schizophrenia" Lexicon Universal Encyclopedia. Vol. 17. 1989 Edition

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