Schizophrenia is often a chronic and debilitating mental illness. The disease can cause you to withdraw from the people and activities in the world around you and retreat into a world of delusions. Schizophrenia is a debilitating kind of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which your interpretation of reality can be severely abnormal. Psychosis is a symptom of a disordered brain. Schizophrenia affects approximately 1 percent of the population worldwide, including more than 2 …showed first 75 words of 1016 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1016 total…skills such as good hygiene, cooking and traveling. Studies show that people with schizophrenia who are in programs to train them in social skills or for jobs -- and help them find and keep jobs experience much greater improvement in symptoms than those who don't receive vocational training and job placement. Today fewer people with schizophrenia require long-term hospitalization because more people than before respond positively to medications or other forms of treatment for schizophrenia.