Items Tagged With “Schizophrenia”

Learn about the rates of mental illness based on familial relationship.

I am a person living with schizophrenia, but I do not let that define me. I am a person who hallucinates monsters, but I am not a monster. I am more than my diagnosis. I am more than my symptoms. I am me.

Schizoaffective disorder symptoms look like a mixture of two kinds of major mental illnesses that are usually thought to run in different families, involve different brain mechanisms, develop in different ways, and respond to different treatments: mood (affective) disorders and schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a group of severe brain disorders in which people interpret reality abnormally.