Schizophrenia, severe mental disorders listed by reality distortions and unusual thought patterns along with behaviors. Because there is often little or no rational relationship between the thoughts and feelings of a person with schizophrenia, the disorder has often been called "split personality." Not to be confused with multiple personality's.
In the late 1800's a German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin grouped at the time mostly unrelated mental diseases under the name dementia praecox or. It was not until 1908, that Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler corrected Emil's theory by introducing the word schizophrenia to replace dementia praecox, to explain the phenomena in the mind and to avoid the similarity of the early theory and progressive brain deterioration.
Schizophrenic disorders start mostly around the ages 17-22 and usually occurs in withdrawn, loner type individuals. The lifetime study worldwide has been estimated to be right under 1%. The disorders affects 1.5 to 2 million people in the U.S.
Symptoms include disturbances with features of delusions, hallucinations, and disturbed or inappropriate emotional responses like lauphing or crying for no reason, or there mind is just out there in the twilight zone
