One-tenth of the afflicted commit suicide, and another third tend to be not be helped by existing medication. Even out of those who are, serious side effects must be tolerated, along with the partially remaining symptoms of the illness. Indeed, it is only the newest neuroleptics that treat the negative, as well as the positive, symptoms of schizophrenia. In this paper, I shall first review the symptoms of schizophrenia. It holds unique promises, in that it is often effective in refractory schizophrenia, it lacks serious side effects found with other neuroleptics and it works in a novel fashion.
Schizophrenia manifests itself in drastic ways.
These are classified into a few types. Positive symptoms are those that should not be present. Disorganized symptoms are a new class, meant to illustrate the breakdown in cognition and personality that occur in this illness. The voices are often vocalizations or thoughts attributed to external sources, which do differ from the thoughts of normal people. They can be accusatory and use profane language.