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SCHIZOPHRENIA By: Jessica Williams
DEFINE Schizophrenia is a chronic,
severe and disabling brain disorder.
Schizophrenia usually begins in early adulthood around the age of 18 for men and 25 for women.
TREATMENTS
Schizophrenia can never be fully be cured but it can be treated with medication called antipsychotics.Antipsychotics medicines have many affects
such as calming, reducing but can take up to 4 weeks for the medications to work.
SYMPTOMS Delusions Illusions Paranoid Disorganized Speech Bad people skills
STATS Teens with schizophrenia have a 50%
chance of committed suicide. The estimated number of U.S citizens
with Schizophrenia is over 2.2 million.
WORK SITED http://www.world-schizophrenia.org/disor
ders/schizophrenia.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
http://www.schizophrenia.com/szfacts.htm