Schizophrenia, an often misunderstood disease, is usually interpreted by those not familiar with it as Multiple Personality Disorder. Schizophrenia is also seen as the ideal case of insanity. The cause of this disease is still unknown, but scientists are constantly searching for answers. Although a cure for schizophrenia is surely far in the future, research and understanding is making more and more progress every day. Over the years, professionals have come up with a fairly accurate definition of Schizophrenia.
             When a person's thinking, feeling, and behaving are so far from normal so as to interfere with his or her ability to function in everyday life, and delusions, hallucinations, or irregular thinking or emotions are produced, then he or she has a mental illness called schizophrenia (Smith 19). The most common symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations and delusions, and irregular thinking. Other signs include disorganized speech, behavior, and loss of appetite, loss of hygiene, depersonalization and social withdrawal. The thought process of a normal person is basically organized, while the thought process of a person with schizophrenia is not. The person with schizophrenia usually has delusions and hallucinations that interfere with their thinking. Most of the time, it is hard to understand what they say, it is out of order, and off subject. The person's emotions are also all mixed up and usually incorrect. For example, instead of smiling or laughing at something amusing, the person with schizophrenia may get angry or upset. They often find it difficult to understand who they are, how they should act, or what they should feel.
            
             Schizophrenia is a very complicated disease. What makes it more complicating is that the disease can be classified in three different ways. The first type is paranoid schizophrenia. Paranoid schizophrenics usually have a single theme or idea on which they focus their delusions and hal...