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Schizophrenia is not a “split personality,” as many people assume, based on its name. The illness is called “schizo” (fragmented or split apart) “phrenia” (mind) because it causes its victims to experience profound disabilities in their capacity to think clearly and to feel normal emotions. It is probably the most devastating illness that psychiatrists treat. Schizophrenia strikes people just when they are preparing to enter the phase of their lives in which they can achieve their highest growth and productivity—typically in the teens or early 20s—leaving most of them unable to return to normal young adult lives: to go to school, to find a job, or to marry and have children.
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