1. Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe disorder of the brain.
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2. Schizophrenia often appears earlier in men than in women. In men, it usually appears in the late teens or early twenties.
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3. Women are generally affected in the twenties to early thirties.
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4. People with schizophrenia often suffer terrifying symptoms such as hearing internal voices not heard by others, or believing that other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them.
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5. Treatments can relieve many symptoms, but most people with schizophrenia continue to suffer some symptoms throughout their lives.
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6. Psychosis, a common condition in schizophrenia, is a state of mental impairment marked by hallucinations, which are disturbances of sensory perception, and/or delusions, which are false yet strongly held personal beliefs that result from an inability to separate real from unreal experiences.
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7. Schizophrenia is the same as split personality.
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8. Most individuals with schizophrenia are not violent.
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9. Schizophrenia does not run in families.
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10. There is no cure for schizophrenia.
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11. Medications, including antipsychotic drugs, are used to treat people with schizophrenia.
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12. The long-term side effects of antipsychotic drugs may include Tardive dyskinesia, a disorder characterized by involuntary movements most often affecting the mouth, lips, and tongue, and sometimes the trunk or other parts of the body such as arms and legs.
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13. Numerous forms of psychosocial therapy are available for people with schizophrenia, and most focus on improving the patient’s social functioning, whether in the hospital or community, at home or on the job.
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