Schizophrenia “The voices told me that aliens do exist” a person diagnosed with schizophrenia might say. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder with many different symptoms. Accurately, the definition means “split mind” and schizophrenics are often stereotyped as two people living in one body. However this is a misconception made by lack of knowledge and research; schizophrenia is not split personality-when a person acts like two different people. Schizophrenia is in fact, according to the Encarta …showed first 75 words of 929 total…

…showed last 75 words of 929 total…people. Schizophrenia is one of the most severe mental illnesses today. The sad fact is, although a schizophrenic person is often laughed at, it is in torment and attack rather than fun. The world is oblivious to the seriousness of schizophrenia and must come to the realization. Schizophrenia is again affected by culture and environment and how can a schizophrenic tell reality from fantasy if reality is a place they don’t want to be?