With incidence of 1 percent, schizophrenia remains one of the most challenging mental illnesses.
The most common symptoms include having false fixed beliefs out of keeping of an individual’s background, hearing voices or seeing images not apparent to others, suspiciousness and fearfulness that others are trying to harm the individual in some way, bodily sensations which can’t be explained by any physical testing. Individual may have trouble getting sleep and may even have suicidal or homicidal tendencies. In short, the affected individual loses the touch of reality and have beliefs, thoughts, perceptions that are only true to him and not to others.
Schizophrenia happens because of imbalance in chemicals such as dopamine, glutamate and GABA in the brain circuits.
With the right treatment, most individuals get treated and lead a near normal life.