Living With Schizophrenia

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A person who has schizophrenia is forced to live a new changed life, with new hardship and challenges as it affects their productivity and capability “The impact schizophrenia has on person’s live varies, some only ever have one psychotic episode where they are unwell, and then manage to better. Others may recover for some time, and then relapse and have another episode”. Living with schizophrenia can pose many challenges, as the symptoms can cause daily battles. A battle to determine what is real and what is not. A battle to have enough motivation, a battle to not with drawl and a battle be as normal as possible. But schizophrenia not only affects the person but the family and friends involves in the person life. As it is never easy to

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