Schizophrenia is constantly being researched and new causes are continually being discovered, making it difficult to identify and cure patients which may be affected by an undiscovered cause. Schizophrenia is diagnosed uses a system of different characteristics of the disease. If the patient possesses a certain number of these characteristics then they are said to be schizophrenic. Treatments for schizophrenia are varied and specialized based on the particular characteristics and background of the patient, but with such little knowledge of this disorder, some cases go untreated and most schizophrenics experience relapse within two years of their being released from a treatment facility. (Davison, 288) Society must be better educated concerning the symptoms and causes of schizophrenia to ensure early detection of cases and to curb misunderstandings about this devastating disorder.
The causes of schizophrenia are rather varied and this leaves no definite way of either ensuring a person will or will not contract this abnormality.
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