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Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is often thought of as a mental illness in which those effected have a split personality or multiple personalities. It is also commonly thought that schizophrenics are psychotic. These common beliefs however are false. Schizophrenia, a disease of the brain, is one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to man. But because it has been misunderstood for so long, it has received relatively little attention and its victims have been …

…on the U.S. economy at between $32.5 billion and $65 billion annually. State and local governments pay the largest share (40 percent) of the nearly $20 billion in direct treatment costs for the illness. Schizophrenia is serious mental disease that should be taken more seriously and studied further in lieu of the high rate of incidents among human beings in our environment. It is a serious condition that requires much help and maintenance to those who are sick.