To everyone else around you, the world can be so silent that even the smallest of sounds can be heard, meanwhile, inside your head, it is as if a symphony of voices and other noises are playing only for you. For someone suffering from Schizophrenia, this is what their life is like on a daily basis. Schizophrenia on its own is already enough hell for one person to handle, now couple that with the trials and tribulations that a teenager faces and you are just asking for trouble. Choosing what college to go to and what field to major in are the average challenges in almost every teens’ life, which are already difficult to begin with. Just imagine trying to juggle your future and your sanity at the same time. It is enough to drive most people over
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In an article by Chris Hollis, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, he stated that from the 1930s up until the 70s many mental illnesses were often lumped in together in the same group. This made it rather difficult to gather any data and any that was, was considered unreliable (84). Forty-five years have passed since then and still for all our advancements in technology and medicine, there is still so much about this disease that we have yet to discover. Asides from how we treat the disease, our perception of those with the disease has also changed with the passing of time. Whereas in the past, our first tendency was to throw these people into an insane asylum, now, programs such as RISE (Recovery after an Initial Schizophrenia Episode) of New York are dedicated to ensuring that these poor individuals receive the care and treatment they truly need. Unfortunately, for all our efforts, many of the people afflicted with this wretched disease are ostracised from society. Of all the people incarcerated in the U.S justice system, fifteen percent of them are diagnosed with a mental illness of some kind (Khazan, Schizophrenia). From the book, Schizophrenia: Evolution and Synthesis, the following statement is given: Among people with the diagnosis, 80-85% are typically unemployed at any given …show more content…
A teenager should be focused on high school and their future, not on whether or not that sound they heard or that person they saw were really there. If we allow a person 's whole life and dreams to just fade away and be forgotten, then we are no better than scum. Schizophrenia has affected many lives, yet with all the positive growth in the past years, the outlook is bright. Teens can go back to worrying about the easy stuff, like the rest of their lives for
In an article by Chris Hollis, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, he stated that from the 1930s up until the 70s many mental illnesses were often lumped in together in the same group. This made it rather difficult to gather any data and any that was, was considered unreliable (84). Forty-five years have passed since then and still for all our advancements in technology and medicine, there is still so much about this disease that we have yet to discover. Asides from how we treat the disease, our perception of those with the disease has also changed with the passing of time. Whereas in the past, our first tendency was to throw these people into an insane asylum, now, programs such as RISE (Recovery after an Initial Schizophrenia Episode) of New York are dedicated to ensuring that these poor individuals receive the care and treatment they truly need. Unfortunately, for all our efforts, many of the people afflicted with this wretched disease are ostracised from society. Of all the people incarcerated in the U.S justice system, fifteen percent of them are diagnosed with a mental illness of some kind (Khazan, Schizophrenia). From the book, Schizophrenia: Evolution and Synthesis, the following statement is given: Among people with the diagnosis, 80-85% are typically unemployed at any given …show more content…
A teenager should be focused on high school and their future, not on whether or not that sound they heard or that person they saw were really there. If we allow a person 's whole life and dreams to just fade away and be forgotten, then we are no better than scum. Schizophrenia has affected many lives, yet with all the positive growth in the past years, the outlook is bright. Teens can go back to worrying about the easy stuff, like the rest of their lives for