Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is depicted as a mental disease, in which a person endures indistinguishable

thoughts, hallucinations, and lessened skills to feel ordinary emotions. Schizophrenia is classified

as a disease in which a person's ability are to process feelings, observations, emotions, and

performance are completely distraught and abnormal. The word schizophrenia is not even one

hundred years old. However, this illness was first documented as an isolated mental illness by

Emile Kraepelin in 1887 and the illness itself was generally assumed to have be an adjunct to

mankind through its history.

The accounts of schizophrenia has been known in human history books and written by the

Pharaonic Egyptians as far back. The written Egyptian text...