About Schizophrenia (Post #2)

People living with schizophrenia must live a hard life. They have to over come a lot of challenges. Living with it means a lot they have a different prospective on life. Those people don't always think the same way as someone without schizophrenia may. There have been people to write about some of there experience with schizophrenia."What is Schizophrenia? A living breathing nightmare. An episode of the Twilight Zone without the entertainment, where bizarre paranoid ideation and hellish voices completely dominate the patient. Schizophrenia, once known as Dementia Praecox, affects 1% of the American population. And guess what? I'm one of them. Even though my father is undoubtedly manic depressive, I have a psychotic disorder." (The Life of a Schizophrenic ).For those who don't know what schizophrenia is exactly i will tell you some stuff about it.

People who has schizophrenia tend to think differently. There prospective of things are completely different then someone without it. Some of the symptoms that someone who is a schizophrenic suffer from are having hallucinations and illusions. People can have all sorts of hallucination whether its from sounds, sight, touch, taste and smells. The common hallucination is someone hearing voices that others may not be able to hear."roughly one-third of people with schizophrenia often have delusions of persecution, or false and irrational beliefs that they are being cheated, harassed, poisoned, or conspired against."(The World of People With Schizophrenia ) Being schizophrenic often affects a persons ability to think straight. Peoples thoughts tend to come and go and they may not be able to concentrate on thoughts for a long periods of time. They become easily distracted and cannot focus they attention on other things. To some people they may think that schizophrenic have sort of a short attention spans.