Schizophrenia: Misconceptions and a Journey to Diagnosis
Imagine going through your life as a healthy kid, both physically and mentally, and then one day everything changes. You start to hear voices from people who ar...
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10 Facts – What Do You Know About Schizophrenia?
First of all, let’s establish that schizophrenia is a mental illness. You probably knew this already, but if I had asked you to name the first three mental illn...
The Disease You Can’t See: Dealing with Mental Illness
What is Mental Illness? Mental illness is a sickness in the brain that affects how a person is thinking, feeling, or how they process information. In many cases...
Schizophrenia Broken Down
Schizophrenia is arguably one of the most difficult neurological diseases to understand if you do not have experience with it. Some of the symptoms are f...
Fighting the Voices in Your Head: Understanding the Reality of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness
Imagine a world in which you live with hearing voices that only you can hear-constantly putting thoughts into your mind that aren’t real. Voices that end up con...
Expectation v. Reality: The Blurred Truth of Schizophrenia
On your walk home today, you witness two feathers floating to the ground. You can imagine the crispness of their hollow shaft and the softness of their feathers...
Born Schizophrenic: Forever Schizophrenic?
Born Schizophrenic Picture yourself at 6 1/2 years old, no responsibilities or cares in the world. Now, imagine for a moment that you spend almost every single...
A Glimpse Into Schizophrenia
Dear King Phillip Came Over For Good Soup. This is a common mnemonic for memorizing the order of taxonomy: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus,...
The Beautiful Mind of Schizophrenia
A Beautiful Mind tells the story of a mathematician, John Nash, and his journey with schizophrenia. This movie gives a Hollywood look into the devastating effec...
Schizophrenics Are Violent
At least, that’s what the media will have you think. Many movies portray mental illness. I understand why—mental illness is different, and we don’t completely u...