Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia, a disease of the brain, is one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to man. It has been misunderstood for a long time and has received relatively little attention. Schizophrenia is not a split personality, but a very rare and different disorder. It has an estimated one percent to one and a half percent of the U.S. population is being diagnosed with it over the course of their lives. Schizophrenia …

…with a psychiatrist for as little as 15 minutes once a month. After a year these patients had a much lower relapse rate than a control group. Due to these drugs, most schizophrenic patients now live outside of mental hospitals. When life makes new demands on them, social skills training is one way to help them respond to those demands. They are coached, prompted, and corrected as they rehearse scenarios and observe the behavior of therapists.