Mental health illnesses are prevalent among all races and ethnicities around the world, they are indiscriminate and often genetic. Throughout many cultures, mental disorders are heavily misunderstood and people diagnosed with them are negatively stigmatized. Schizophrenia is a mentally disabling disease that causes individuals who suffer from it to lose sense of reality and perform crimes or acts they wouldn't otherwise commit. In many cultures across the globe, schizophrenia and schizoaffective symptoms can be seen. For this reason, schizophrenia continues to be heavily studied and new causes for the disorder continue to be discovered. This presents a problem for people who have causes that still remain to be discovered. Currently, Venezuela
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Many different countries have different methods of identifying the disease and there exist many different boundaries between this disease and similar ones. Two similar diseases where the patient suffers a functioning psychosis are schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The distinction between the two is not an easy one to make due to the fact that they both deal with many of the same symptoms but sometimes patients interpret them in different ways. One major common symptom they both have is illogical thinking, where they think or see situations differently than what actually occurred. Auditory hallucinations may also occur in either manic or depressive states of bipolar disorder, and it is also a common symptom for schizophrenics though the main difference is that for schizophrenics the auditory hallucinations are often commenting on the person’s actions or converse with one another. Delusions are also common because they give the individual's senses that they are being followed or controlled by outside forces, or that their thoughts are being broadcasted or interfered with. Since many symptoms are unusual and can have devastating effects when they are not treated, when they do receive medication they can potentially very successful
Many different countries have different methods of identifying the disease and there exist many different boundaries between this disease and similar ones. Two similar diseases where the patient suffers a functioning psychosis are schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The distinction between the two is not an easy one to make due to the fact that they both deal with many of the same symptoms but sometimes patients interpret them in different ways. One major common symptom they both have is illogical thinking, where they think or see situations differently than what actually occurred. Auditory hallucinations may also occur in either manic or depressive states of bipolar disorder, and it is also a common symptom for schizophrenics though the main difference is that for schizophrenics the auditory hallucinations are often commenting on the person’s actions or converse with one another. Delusions are also common because they give the individual's senses that they are being followed or controlled by outside forces, or that their thoughts are being broadcasted or interfered with. Since many symptoms are unusual and can have devastating effects when they are not treated, when they do receive medication they can potentially very successful