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Schizophrenia is a serious, chronic mental disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality and disturbances of thought, mood, and perception. Schizophrenia is the most common of the psychosis, affecting approximately 1% of the world's population at one point or another.
Many people outside the mental health profession believe that schizophrenia refers to a "split personality". Possessing multiple personalities is a very common result of suffering from a phycosis. The word "schizophrenia" comes from the Greek schizo, meaning split and phrenia refers to the diaphragm (once thought to be the location of a person's mind and soul.) When the word "schizophrenia" was established by European psychiatrists, they meant to describe a shattering, or breakdown, of basic psychological functions. The first recognition of this disease dates back to the 1800's when Emil Kraepelin concluded after a comprehensive study of thousands of patients that a "state of dementia was supposed to follow......

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