Schizophrenia is often a chronic and debilitating mental illness. The
disease can cause you to withdraw from the people and activities in the
world around you and retreat into a world of delusions. Schizophrenia
is a debilitating kind of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking
in which your interpretation of reality can be severely abnormal.
Psychosis is a symptom of a disordered brain.
Schizophrenia affects approximately 1 percent of the population
worldwide, including more than 2 million Americans. It occurs equally
in men and women. The disorder is rare in children. There's of…
