Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a collapse of thinking and poor emotional responses. The most common symptoms include delusions, such as paranoia; hearing voices or noises that aren't there; disordered thinking; absence of emotions and lack of motivation. Schizophrenia causes significant social and occupational problems. Symptoms typically begin in young adulthood. The diagnosis is based on the observed behavior. Factors such as genetics, early environment, psychological and social processes appear to be important contributing factors. Some recreational and prescription drugs appear to cause or worsen symptoms. Schizophrenia does not suggest a "split personality" or "multiple personality disorder," a condition with which it is often confused in society. Rather, the word means "subdivision of mental functions", which reflects the course of the disease. The basis of treatment is antipsychotic drugs, which mainly suppress the activity of dopamine receptors. Therapy, vocational training and social rehabilitation are also key in treatment. In more serious cases, where there is a risk to oneself or others, involuntary hospitalization is necessary. Individuals with schizophrenia may experience hallucinations, delusions, and confused thinking and speech. The latter can range from loss of a general idea, to sentences only loosely connected in meaning, to garbled speech. Social withdrawal, disordered clothing and hygiene, and loss of enthusiasm and judgment are all common in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is often labeled in terms of positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms are those that most individuals do not normally experience but are found in people with schizophrenia. They may include delusions, disordered thoughts and words, a... middle of paper... then what he had, like many I believe what the elders said, but now after my research, although I am not qualified to do a diagnosis, I believe he had schizophrenia. I also believe that if we, as a family, had been more educated about mental disorder, we could have helped him. In conclusion, individuals with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are at significantly greater risk of being victims of both violent and nonviolent attacks. crime. Schizophrenia has been associated with a higher rate of violent acts, although this is mainly due to higher rates of drug use. Media coverage of violent acts by individuals with schizophrenia reinforces public perceptions of an association between schizophrenia and violence. According to a meta-analysis, the perception of individuals with psychosis as violent has more than doubled over the years ’50.