What Is Schizophrenia?

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Schizophrenia, also sometimes known as split personality disorder, 

is a chronic, severe and draining mental illness.

It is considered one of the psychotic mental disorders 

and is characterized by symptoms of thought, behavior, and social problems.

 Psychotic means out of touch with reality or unable to separate real from unreal experiences.

The thought problems associated with schizophrenia are described as psychosis, 

in that the person's thinking is completely out of touch with reality at times. 
 People having this type of illness may likely having the state of 'their own world'. 

For example, 

the sufferer may hear voices or see people that are in no way present 

or feel like bugs are crawling on their skin when there are none.

 Sometimes they also having what we called delusions, 

which are ideas about themselves or others that have no basis in reality.

For instance, 

the individual might experience paranoia, 

in that he or she thinks others are plotting against them when they are not.