Essays about schizophrenia

Someone that has schizophrenia suffers in many areas of their life; however, the medical and psychological communities are fighting for the understanding and freedom for all that are involved.

Schizophrenia has the label cognitive disorder; however, it affects other things such as emotions, daily life, and speech. Being that patients with the disorder have disorganized speech and instability in their lives, the psychology community performs worldwide studies on different aspects of the disorder.

The best way to understand schizophrenia is through the knowledge from the medical community about the physical make up and definition of the illness. “Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, disabling brain disease” (Mental Health America, 2009).

Some of the direct symptoms, which we will discuss later in the essay, but a snapshot of them include hallucinations, instability, hearing of voices and most common disorganized speech. Each symptom, studied throughout many different cultures and race have commonality.