what is Schizophrenia?

Answer 1

Most of the above answers. But it is most definitely NOT haveing multiple personalities or identities.

Answer 2

Schizophrenia is a mental condition that can be helped by medications. It more often affects males and can start at any age but usually begins sometime in the teens or early twenties. It can cause the person to hear voices, or feel paranoid, among many other symptoms. Medication can relieve these symptoms if they are not too severe. Many people with schizophrenia can now lead relatively normal lives with proper care. I hope this helped.

Answer 3

Schizophrenia is a disorder of the brain which typically onsets in young adult-hood but can strike at just about any age. People with schizophrenia may suffer from auditory hallucinations, such as hearing voices, visual hallucinations, or paranoia and delusions. Symptoms may vary greatly from individual and may or may not be transient in nature. Some individuals will babel incoherantly to voices they hear, some may laugh or cry at inappropriate times, or some may appear perfectly normal except for a stongly held delusion.

The brains of schizophrenics have marked difference from the brains of non-affected individuals, narrowing and developing pockets as the disorder takes hold. The disorder is thought to be caused by a genetic disposition which relies heavily on an environmental factor to become activitated, as in cases of identical twins, one may be affected and the other may not.

Schizophrenia can sometimes be treated, though not cured, with anti-psychotic medications, however many patients cannot take these due to side effects such as permenant nerve damage.

Answer 4

Which type?

There's no one definition of this illness. Select any 10 Schizophrenics and they will all have different symptoms. There are different forms of Schizophrenia, perhaps the most well-known being Paranoid Schizophrenia.

Answer 5

Any of a group of psychotic disorders usually characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral, or intellectual disturbances. Schizophrenia is associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and may have an underlying genetic cause.

Answer 6

schizophrenia-gross distortion of reality, disturbances of language and communication, widrawal from social interaction.
there are types of schizophrenia....one is paranoid type...the main manifestation is extreme suspiciousness....the person is violent and hostile.
another is catatonic type-completely immobile or move all over the place. They may not say anything for hours, or they may repeat anything you say or do senselessly.
have you seen the movie? BEAUTIFUL MIND? thats a good example of a person who suffers from schizophrenia........

Answer 7

Hearing voices that seem to come from nowhere like someone talking to you but there's noone there.
no it's not!
Yes it is!
And 2 or more personalities from the same person.
No it's not.
I said YES IT IS..
Are you sure?
Yes I'm sure.
Oh ok nevermind.

roman_fantasy your thinking of hypochondria.
That's not it.
Yes it is, why do you keep contradicting me?
Because it's not.
Yes it is, shut up already.
Why don't you make me.
whatever just go back to sleep.
fine whatever.

Answer 8

Schizophrenia is when you one day go crazy and decide to move to Mexico to open up your own mexican restaurant called TACO TIME!!!!!!!!!! Trust me I know!

Answer 9

It is marked by withdrawn, bizarre, and sometimes delusional behavior and by intellctual and emotioal deterioration.

Answer 10

a mental disorder psychological illness..