Schizophrenia

====Schizophrenia is a long-time, genetic mental disorder that causes hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and thinking, apparent lack of emotion and the inability to become independent. The word Schizophrenia literally means "split mind." This disorder has been around for thousands of years and was called something else until a guy by the name of Eugen Bleuler changed it, since he thought the other term to be confusing. ====

====Schizophrenia is unknown what exactly causes this disorder, however it is known to be genetic at times, yet, no specific gene has been found that causes it;however,if a parent has it then it is more likely that the child will have it. This disorder knows no gender or race, it is fair to all. ==== ====John Nash is an example of a person with Schizophrenia. He is a mathematician, who won the noble peace prize for economics in 1994. A movie which came out in 2001, called __Beautiful Mind__, is a movie about Nash. ==== ====A couple of common misconceptions are:that everyone with this disease is violent and that people confuse it with the dissociative identity disorder, which is having a split mind. ====



and self-help groups.
====Mental disorders in general, not just Schizophrenia, affect society. People affect society by needing a source of help, which creates jobs, generating a healthy economy. They also impact society by the way they function, such as a person with Schizophrenia, who doesn't know he has it, may have a job as a construction worker, and while he is working have a hallucination, and become the cause of a person dying. ====

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