Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness affecting many people in the United States alone. This mental illness is one which makes everyday life incredibly difficult for the suffering patient and his or her family, especially when it is left untreated. Unfortunately, there are a great number of cases of schizophrenia which go unreported and under-diagnosed due to the stigma attached to this particular condition. When this happens, the patient is likely to suffer a poor quality of life for an unnecessarily longer period of time than if treatment had been sought sooner. This is a sad and horrifying reality, and in the United States, people should be working toward removing the negative stigma attached to schizophrenia and its related treatments,
