Schizophrenia is a well known medical condition. It is a chronic, disabling brain clinical illness that presents several severe forms. Studies have shown that about 11 out of 1000 Americans are suffering from this medical disorder. Patients who present this medical disorder often hear voices that do not exist, think that others (generally, enemies) broadcast their thoughts, hopes and fears to the entire world. Patients with this medical condition present a rough conviction that the people around them are actually plotting to cause them harm. This is a strong barrier between such individuals and other people. For this reason, patients who are suffering from this medical condition have difficulties in trying to form a relationship with others.
Studies made regarding this disorder have concluded that early environment, genetics, psychological processes as well as social processes, neurobiology, and so on, play an important factor in establishing which patient is prone to developing this mental clinical condition. As a patient who is suffering from Schizophrenia may develop a wide range of combinations of various clinical manifestations that are associated with the presence of this medical condition, scientists are still debating on whether this disorder is a single medical condition or a number of different mental syndromes. This disorder is not the same as dissociative identity disorder (split personality or personality disorder) although they are commonly mistaken for one another. This medical disorder is known to primarily affect the patient’s cognitive functions. However, the presence of this mental illness also triggers chronic disturbances of emotion and / or behavior. Patients who are diagnosed with the presence of this medical condition also present anxiety disorders, clinical depression and / or various other comorbid medical disturbances.
