What is a schizophrenic?

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What is a schizophrenic?

Answer 1

Schizophrenia

What is Schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that affects about 1.1 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. People with schizophrenia sometimes hear voices others don’t hear, believe that others are broadcasting their thoughts to the world, or become convinced that others are plotting to harm them. These experiences can make them fearful and withdrawn and cause difficulties when they try to have relationships with others. More about Schizophrenia »

Signs & Symptoms

Symptoms usually develop in men in their late teens or early twenties and women in the twenties and thirties, but in rare cases, can appear in childhood. They can include hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, movement disorders, flat affect, social withdrawal, and cognitive deficits. More about Signs & Symptoms »

Treatment

This is a time of hope for people with schizophrenia. Although the causes of the disease have not yet been determined, current treatments can eliminate many of the symptoms and allow people with schizophrenia to live independent and fulfilling lives in the community. More about Treatment »

Learn more about the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE), a clinical trial that studied treatment choices for schizophrenia.

Answer 2

Schizophrenic is a split personality or can be more than one personality. There is no cure but with medication a person can lead a normal life.

Answer 3

Depends on which type, based on symptoms it. But the general idea of it is that the mind has chemical imbalances which distort reality. Hearing voices or (dissociative identity disorder) is uncommon.

Answer 4

Schizophrenia is a disorder that involves several symptoms: Hallucinations, auditory mostly; delusions; and disorganized speech or behavior.  It is NOT having multiple personalities. That is Dissociative Identity Disorder, and it is extremely rare.

A schizophrenic person may also have some of the following symptoms: flat affect (ie, no discernible facial expression), poverty of speech (doesn't talk much) poverty of content (when they do talk, it might be a whole lot of talk to convey very little content), social withdrawal, difficulties with processing information. There are five types:  Paranoid, Disorganized, Catatonic, Undifferentiated, and Residual.

Some people with schizophrenia