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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder type of mental illness that affects an individual’s personality and their ability to cope with everyday life. Even though schizophrenia can develop in older people, it generally develops in early adulthood. ... Schizophrenia affects approximately 1 percent of all people, all over the world.
Types of schizophrenia
Catatonic schizophrenia – shows physical symptoms like immobility, having strange posture and frenzied movement.
Paranoid schizophrenia – having major delusions and hallucinations.
Disorganised (hebephrenic) schizophrenia – having abnormal emotional reactions and disrupted speech and thinking patterns.
Undifferentiated schizophrenia – having a combination of symptoms from all groups. ...
How long the symptoms last
20 – 30 percent of people that have schizophrenia will only experience 1 or 2 psychotic episodes in their life. In most cases schizophrenia is a life long disorder, but this is not to say that it is a life long problem. With appropriate counselling, medication and support people that suffer from schizophrenia can lead a full and productive life.
Causes
There is no single cause of schizophrenia but it is believed that there are several contributing factors, and these are:
Genetics
A predisposition to schizophrenia can run in families.
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