Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is one of the most serious and complex disorders of the mind. The disease is an abnormal decay of the person's mental functions. Schizophrenia is an often-misunderstood disease; it is usually confused with Multiple Personality Disorder. According to Webster's Dictionary Schizophrenia is defined as 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 …

…magazines because of the movie about John Forbes Nash, A Beautiful Mind. In an article in Newsweek entitled, "National Alliance for the Mentally Ill praises 'Beautiful Mind'" which stated that the movie was the, "Most outstanding contribution to public understanding of mental illness"(1). Schizophrenics still have a long way to go but there is still hope, but at the moment schizophrenia is an illness that like most others can be treated, but cannot be cured.