Causes and Symptoms of Schizophrenia

When a person's thinking, feeling, and behavior are so far from normal as to interfere with his or her ability to function in everyday life, and he or she experiences delusions or hallucinations, he or she is afflicted with a mental illness called schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is one of the most serious mental illnesses because it causes its victims to lose touch with reality and makes him or her unable to perform in society (Smith 23).
The word schizophrenia literally means "a splitting of the mind." (Torrey 176) The disease is also called paranoia and schizophrenia reaction, but it s of…