ad asked to move his car because he would never listen. He drove the car right through the store window to get even I guess. After his boss told him to take time off, he meets the new object of his affection, Irene (Rene Zellwegger). The police decide to let Charlie take Irene upstate. Along the way she realized he had problems and needed to take his medicine or strange things would start to occur. At one point she ends up apologizing for his behavior, explaining that Charlie is a "schizo". Both Charlie/Hank and Irene are chased across the country by corrupt cops that are intent on killing her because she is the sole witness to a property scam. Along the way they meet some interesting people. One in particular was a man with Albinism, named 'Whitey' (Michael Bowman), who explains that he has killed his entire family, but was released early "to make room for psychos".
             According to the movie's diagnosis, the character Charlie developed schizophrenia. The main DSM criteria for schizophrenia states that you must have two or more characteristic symptoms present for a significant portion of time during a one month period or less if successfully treated. Most common of the symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, and negative symptoms such as the flat affect. Schizophrenia has several phases. The first is the Prodromal phase which is mainly when friends or family start recognizing personality changes and the level of their functioning slowly deteriorates. The active phase is when symptoms appear but the patient is not
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