The essay is about the mental diorder, schizophrenia. Including who first discovered the illness, theories on what causes it, symptoms, treatment, and history of schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, disabling mental disorder typically characterized by a separation between the thought processes and the emotions (Torrey). Schizophrenia affects about one percent of the adult population and signs of it usually emerge in the late teens to the middle twenties (Schizophrenia). This disorder usually appears earlier in men than in women; however, it affects both equally. Men ordinarily develop the disorder in their late teens or early twenties. Women, on …

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