This article is a huge eye-opener to all those that are not very knowledgable about schizophrenia, including myself. It starts out talking about how in New York, an organization was holding a prom; for anyone and everyone. Because for many people with schizophrenia, they were either not able or not willing to attend their own prom when they were in high school. It talks about how most people do not have any memories before the age of 20, because all they remember darkness and fear of some foreign object that only they can see, hear, or feel. However, within the past few years, researchers have discovered a new drug that has the potential to help those with this disorder. People that have taken this drug and have gotten better say that it is like they are re-born again because now they don't have something haunting them.
Over 1/4 of the nation's hospital beds are being occupied by those that have schizophrenia. Whether that be because of drug or alcohol abuse, they are still taking up a lot of beds. Schizophrenia is a disorder that causes the person to sometimes hear voices telling him/her to do something. Sometimes hit the parents, take drugs, run away, act like a new-born infant so that that the mother or father has to diaper him/her again, and many other things.
If the researchers would be able to produce a drug that cures schizophrenia, it would cause much less chaos in the world today. So hopefully, someday someone will because after reading this article I realized that schizophrenia harms a lot more people than one might realize.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975910-3,00.html
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