### expensive illness:

Schizophrenia
* affects about one percent of the population at large
  - almost all human mental activity, and the symptoms are extremely diverse
  - both rich and poor but is more prevalent in lower socioeconomic groups
  - men and women with equal frequency
* alone is fifty times more common than muscular dystrophy.
* also has a hereditary role.
* alters a person's behavior and thought processes.
* always involves a deterioration from a previous higher level of functioning
  - deterioration and changes from a previous level of functioning
  - requires treatment
* appears to be an amalgamation of many different disorders
  - linked to the father's age at conception
  - have a genetic component and seems to run in families
  - occur in equal rates among men and women, but women have a later onset
* beats being alone.
* biological brain disease that affects thinking, perception, mood and behavior
  - disease of the brain that ebbs and flows
* biologically-based disease of the brain.
* brain disease that affects thinking, perception and mood behavior
* can affect anyone regardless of gender, race, culture or intelligence
  - appear in one of many forms
  - be a devastating mental disorder
  - develop suddenly or gradually and can affect people of any age
  - occur in any family
  - produce visual and auditory hallucinations, severe paranoia and other symptoms
* causes great strain on family members
  - well-documented abnormalities across a wide range of cognitive abilities
* chronic and disabling brain disease
  - condition that affects many aspects of an individual s life
* chronic illness that requires life-long treatment with medication
  - lifelong treatment
  - terror syndrome
* chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease.
* clinical disorder of the self model.
* common serious mental illness.
* complex disorder with few generalisations holding true for all people diagnosed
  - mental illness that affects millions of people in Europe
* complicated and confusing condition
  - disorder associated with high morbidity if left unmanaged
* debilitating illness affecting thinking.
* degenerative illness.
* devastating brain disorder and the most disabling of severe mental illnesses
  - disease, but some individuals do get better
  - disorder, and the most disabling of severe mental illnesses
* devastating illness that affects one percent of the American population
  - mental illness that effects every aspect of a person
* difficult subject for which to raise money.
* disabling disease.
* disease of the brain that eludes simple definition
  - human condition
* disease that afflicts the brain
  - is indicated by disruptions in thinking, perception, and emotion
  - with a physical cause, like cancer or heart disease
* disorder of major public health concern.
* disorder that can effect anyone
  - usually occurs during a severe and extreme moment in ones life
* disorder which affects the thoughts and perceptions of a person
  - thinking and perception
* does run in families.
* drastically affects individuals' quality of life
  - people's quality of life
* eats identity.
* exists in all cultures in all countries.
* frequently occurs in young adults.
* generally develops during late adolescence or early adulthood
  - manifests itself during late adolescence or early adulthood
* group of disorders characterized by unusual thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
* has a lot of potential different symptoms
  - many contributing biological factors to the great amount of disability involved
  - absolutely nothing to do with split personality disorder
  - great human and economic costs
  - many different forms and everyone responds to treatment differently
  - no known cure
  - nothing to do with multiple personality
  - the least positive outcome of any of the major mental disorders
* heart-breaking malady.
* hereditary mental illness that often leaves a sufferer helpless.
* heritable brain illness with unknown pathogenic mechanisms.
* includes three so-called negative symptoms.
* is absolutely a chemical, and possibly a structural, brain disease
  - almost nil in highland New Guinea where practically no grain is consumed
  - also a disorder of brain development which affects children and adolescents
* is an expensive illness
  - extremely complex mental illness caused by a biochemical imbalance in the brain
  - illness that causes problems in thinking, feeling, and relating
  - arguably the most terrible illness that has ever affected humanity
* is associated with both increased dopaminergic activity and perinatal complications
  - excessively high dopamine production
  - flu epidemics in a country
  - believed to have a genetic basis
  - called a formal thought disorder
* is caused by a very significant disruption of the dopamine system
  - both biological and environmental issues
  - principally by biological factors, most of which reside in the brain
* is characterized by a constellation of distinctive and predictable symptoms
  - symptoms suffered for a number of months
  - episodes of psychosis - being out of reality
  - positive and negative symptoms
  - considerably more disorganizing but can be confused with bipolar disorder
* is considered to be a disorder caused by a combination of factors
  - survival mechanism thus the schizophrenic won t give it up
  - multifactorially inherited
  - diagnosed by the presence of two of the symptoms described above
  - either an inherited brain disease or the result of neglectful parenting
  - found all over the world
  - generally more disabling
  - incurable
  - inheritable to some degree
  - kept under control by anti-psychotic drugs
  - made up of probably four or five different syndromes
* is more common in the lower social class
  - than a terrible disease
  - nearly synonymous with isolation
  - on the more severe end of the spectrum
* is one of many possible diagnostic categories used in psychiatry
  - the classifications used in diagnosing a mental illness
* is one of the most chronic and disabling of the mental illnesses
  - common mental illnesses
  - complex of all mental health disorders
  - debilitating of all mental illnesses
* is one of the most disabling and puzzling mental disorders
  - disease for young people
  - misunderstood mental illnesses, doctors say
  - puzzling, frightening, and expensive of the psychiatric disorders
  - serious and disabling of the mental illnesses
  - probably a multifactorial, polygenic disease
  - quite a different thing than paranoia
  - regarded as an illness with a biological component
  - that which stops the flow
  - the brain's most serious illness, and affects about one per cent of the population
* is the most common form of severe mental illness, affecting about one per cent
  - psychological disorder
  - disabling single illness for young people
  - name given to a set of symptoms
  - ultimate in psychological breakdown
  - thus biological de facto
  - treated mainly with the major tranquillisers
* is typically a catastrophic illness that begins in adolescence or early adulthood
  - chronic illness, affecting thinking, originality and drive
* is, essentially, a disease which distorts thoughts and perception
  - over-consciousness radiation
* leave varying degrees of residual impairment.
* lifelong illness
  - infirmity
* major burden for families
  - mental psychotic disorder
  - psychiatric illness
  - public health problem throughout the world
* malady that epitomizes the worst fears of having a mental disorder.
* man-made diagnosis, and doctors make mistakes.
* manifests itself in drastic ways.
* mental disorder in which people are no longer dealing with reality
  - have an altered sense of reality
* mental illness that impairs thinking, perception and emotion
  - which causes confusion, hallucinations, and mood swings
* neurobiological disorder that can be both debilitating and life-threatening.
* neurological disorder which results from an imbalance of chemicals in the brain.
* never goes away.
* normal and acceptable personality quirk.
* occurs at equal rates regardless of education, socioeconomic status, or culture
  - worldwide in all cultures and across all socioeconomic classes
* often begins in men a few years earlier than in women.
* often starts out very slowly and progresses to a severely disabling mental illness
  - strikes during adolescence
* persists despite the fact that the majority of victims never marry of have children.
* physical illness, just like diabetes or a broken leg.
* places a major economic burden on society.
* prevalent and complex disorder.
* probably has strong biological roots, but can be influenced by environmental stress.
* process of compiling lists and letting go of syntax.
* profoundly affects their health, happiness, and social life.
* ranks as one of the most common mental disorders.
* real and serious illness that affects one out of every hundred people.
* refers to a number of illnesses with similar features.
* remains prevalent and the symptoms are both devastating and heartbreaking.
* reveals itself gradually.
* runs in families, and is known to have a strong genetic component
* schizophrenia mental illness depression, bipolar.
* seems to be very rare before the age of six
  - run in families, too
* serious brain disease of uncertain etiology
  - disturbance of thought, perception, emotion and drive
  - illness, one that has an impact on every aspect of the sufferer's life
* serious mental illness which affects one person in a hundred
  - interferes with the way someone's mind operates
* severe and often enduring mental illness
  - psychosis, with varied symptoms
* severe, significant psychiatric illness.
* shows no favorites occupationally or socioeconomically.
* strikes one in every hundred people
  - roughly one in a hundred men and women
* suffers from very low public awareness.
* tends to come and go in cycles of remission and relapse
* term given to a complex group of mental disorders.
* thought disorder, where there disturbance in thought patterns and processes.
* tragic condition which strikes too many families throughout the world.
* tragic, chronic, and disabling mental illness.
* treatable illness but requires the taking of medication for long periods of time.
* type of psychotic disorder.
* typically becomes evident when individuals are in their late teens or early twenties
  - begins in late adolescence or early adulthood
* typically develops at an early age
  - in the late teens and early twenties
  - manifests itself in young adult life and under times of stress
  - runs in families, but can occur in a family with no history of it
* usually appears earlier in men
  - for the first time in late adolescence or early adulthood
  - begins with gradual onset during adolescence or young adulthood
* usually starts between the teens and the mid-thirties
  - in the late teens or in the mid-thirties
  - strikes in the late teen years or the twenties
* very common problem
  - debilitating, but poorly understood, brain disorder
  - insidious disorder, full of suffering, loneliness and unhappiness
  - sad disease and in most cases the most feared psychological disease also
* yields new gene clues.
+ Schizophrenia, Likelihood
  * Schizophrenia usually appears earlier in men. For males the symptoms usually start from 20 to 28 years of age, and in females it is 26 to 32 years of age. Symptoms that start in childhood, middle or old age are much rarer. Despite the received wisdom that schizophrenia occurs at similar rates worldwide, its rate of likelihood varies across the world, within countries, and at the local level. The rate of schizophrenia varies depending on how it is defined
  - Outlook: Mental illnesses :: Psychosis
  * Schizophrenia has great human and economic costs. The condition results in a decreased life expectancy of 12 to 15 years, primarily because of its association with being overweight, not exercising, and smoking cigarettes. An increased rate of suicide plays a lesser role. These differences in life expectancy increased between the 1970s and 1990s