SCHIZOPHRENIA: WHAT TO DO? Schizophrenia is a type of major mental illness which affects the way we think. A person suffering from schizophrenia experiences changes in behavior and perceptions, hallucinations, a lack of drive as well as having distorted thinking that causes a person to lose sense of reality. He/she may also find difficult to understand what is real and what is imaginary. Schizophrenia usually strikes in individual in late adolescence or young adulthood ( between ages 16 and 30). The rate of developing symptoms is more in men than women. People usually get schizophrenia at young age. Being a chronic disorder, the cure has not been discovered yet, but a variety of treatments may help the patient to get complete control over it. WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA? Schizophrenic patients go through two types of categories namely: · Positive symptoms: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized spee...