Schizophrenia         Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating mental illness. The disease can cause you to withdraw from the people and activities in the world around you and retreat into a world of delusions and fantasies. Schizophrenia is the most common kind of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which your interpretation of reality can be severely abnormal. Schizophrenia causes a slowly progressive deterioration in your ability to function in various roles, especially in …showed first 75 words of 1465 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1465 total…help in the treatment of this very misunderstood illness. Bibliography 1. Patlak, Margie. Schizophrenia: Real Lives Ravaged by Imaginary Terror Drugs, Therapy Can Turn Life Around for Some [http://www.fda.com], 1997 2. American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Children with Schizophrenia [http://www.aacap.org], 1999 3. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education. Schizophrenia [http://www.schizophrenia.com], 2000 4. National Institute of Mental Health. Schizophrenia [http://www.mentalhealth.com] 5. Personal Experiences with Schizophrenia [http://www.members.nbci.com/Digdin]