Facts about schizophrenia

 Here are some facts about the illness

1. It is estimated that more than 2.7 million Americans now have schizophrenia. There are more Americans with schizophrenia than there are residents of North Dakota and Wyoming combined. 
2. One of every hundred Americans will fall victim to schizophrenia. 
3. Three-quarters of persons with schizophrenia develop the illness between 16 and 25 years of age. Initial onset before age 14 and after age 30 is unusual. 
4. Schizophrenia is not the same as “split personality.” The illness depicted in The Three Faces of Eve” and “Sybil” is multiple personality disorder, or dissociative disorder — different from schizophrenia. 
5. Perhaps the most familiar symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations and delusions. Three-quarters of all persons with schizophrenia have these symptoms, although not all people who exhibit these symptoms have schizophrenia. 
6. The most common form of hallucinations are auditory experiences such as “voices.” Other forms of hallucinations include visions that cannot be externally validated, or certain perceptions of touch, smell or taste. 
7. Another “mistaken belief’ of a person with schizophrenia is a paranoid delusion in which a person may feel that he or she is being persecuted, when there is no basis for this in reality. Examples include a mistaken belief that the FBI or CIA is tapping one’s phone or that the Mafia is arranging for a hit man to “put one away.” 
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