Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is often 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. Schizophrenia is a debilitating kind of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which your interpretation of reality can be severely abnormal. Psychosis is a symptom of a disordered brain. Schizophrenia affects approximately 1 percent of the population worldwide, including more than 2 …

…skills such as good hygiene, cooking and traveling. Studies show that people with schizophrenia who are in programs to train them in social skills or for jobs -- and help them find and keep jobs experience much greater improvement in symptoms than those who don't receive vocational training and job placement. Today fewer people with schizophrenia require long-term hospitalization because more people than before respond positively to medications or other forms of treatment for schizophrenia.