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  • Schizophrenia refers to a class of disorders in which severe distortion of reality occurs.
    • Thinking, perception, and emotion may deteriorate; the individual may withdraw from social interaction; and the person may display bizarre behavior.
  • A number of characteristics distinguish schizophrenia from other disorders.
    • Decline from a previous level of functioning.
    • Disturbances of thought and language.
    • People with schizophrenia often have delusions‚Äîfirmly held, unshakable beliefs with no basis in reality.
    • People with schizophrenia may have hallucinations, the experience of perceiving things that do not actually exist.
    • People with schizophrenia sometimes lack emotion.
    • People with schizophrenia tend to have little interest in others.
  • In process schizophrenia, the symptoms develop relatively early in life.
  • In reactive schizophrenia, the onset of symptoms is sudden and conspicuous.
    • The treatment outlook for reactive schizophrenia is relatively favorable; process schizophrenia has proved to be much more difficult to treat.







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