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=__Introduction__= may cause changes to a person's personality.
 * Schizophrenia is a mental illness which affects one person in every hundred.
 * Schizophrenia interferes with the mental functioning of a person and, in the long term,
 * The first onset is usually in adolescence or early adulthood. It can develop in older people but this is not nearly as common.
 * The onset of illness may be rapid, with acute symptoms developing over several weeks, or it may be slow, developing over months or even years.

=__Symptoms__=

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 * Major
 * Delusion: False belief of persecution, guilty or being under outside control.
 * Hallucination: Mostly hearing voices, lessly seeing, feeling, tasting or smelling things even though the things are not actually there.
 * Thought disorder: Where the speech maybe difficult to follow (e.g. jumping from one jubject to another without logical connection.
 * Minor**
 * Loss of drive
 * Thinking difficulties
 * Blunted expression of emotions
 * Social withdrawal
 * Lack of insight or awareness of other conditions.

=__Causes__=

: A predisposition (run in family).  : Biochemical substance in the brain (especially a neurotransmitter called dopamine). : Tension between family. : Stressful incidents. > : The use of some drugs, especially cannabis and LSD, is likely to cause a relapse in schizophrenia.
 * Genetic factors
 * Biochemical factors
 * Family relationships
 * Environment
 * Drug use

=Myths, misunderstanding and facts=

thoughts and perceptions become disordered.
Last Modified April 18, 2008 (Fri) by Jae Min Chang