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Schizophrenia: A Mental Health Disorder

Many times mental health disorders like Schizophrenia go undiagnosed for many years, sometimes people suffering from such disorders deny being affected by it, or sometimes the people around them do. Many times it is because many people are not educated about the illness and so are unable to understand even when the symptoms persist. If mental illness not detected and treated at the right time, it might lead to something big, and major.

During the early stages of the disease it is fine if the symptoms go unnoticed, but if left untreated Schizophrenia intensifies with age. But now days with improvement in the medial sciences treatments for Schizophrenia have been advanced and thus can well treat the patients. It is a terrible way of living your life and if not treated at the right time, death is the end result.

Few symptoms of Schizophrenia have been mentioned below. Some of them are obvious while others have to be carefully noticed:-

1. Sometimes people suffering from Schizophrenia hear just voices and do not see anyone attached to the voice. Sometimes it is harsher & they will in fact see creatures & things that actually do not exist in real, but they find it to be real. These are called hallucinations, but people suffering from Schizophrenia seem to believe that these voices and people exist for real.

2. They live in their own delusions & false beliefs. It is very difficult to tell them what they are seeing is not real, as they can practically draw pictures of people whom they see.

3. As they progress with their illness, people suffering from Schizophrenia begin living more & more in their own imaginary world. They think they have a significant task to do which no one else can understand and so they prefer keeping it hidden. As they think that no one understands them, thus their discussion with normal people makes them even more frustrated.

4. They lose the will to go to work, take care of them or do almost anything in life. They thus choose to avoid people all together as their interactions with people make them feel strained & stressful.

5. The continuous force from these fantasy voices & people that annoy the mentally ill is overpowering for them. As a result, they can become unsystematic, easily abstracted, and unable to focus on what they are doing.