Symptom Groups of Schizophrenia
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Affecting one person in a hundred at some time in their lives, can start at any age but most commonly begins in the late teens and early twenties. According to the SANE Mental Health Series, Schizophrenia is currently the most common serious mental illness in the world.
Firstly, Schizophrenia is an illness that can be treated, allowing most sufferers to return to a normal or near-normal life.
About a quarter of those treated recover within weeks or months and the illness never returns.
About half recover but have further spells of illness.
Sadly, the remainder do not respond well and may remain ill for a long time.
Secondly, schizophrenia is not physically disabling like some illnesses that attack young people such as multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis. Nor is it, in itself, life-threatening, although one in seven sufferers commits suicide.
I am here today to inform you all on the different symptom groups of Schizophrenia. The two groups are categorized as positive and negative symptoms...