Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder that can have a devastating impact on the lives of patients and their families. It is a disorder that is still undergoing very much research due to the lack of knowledge about the exact reasons for its occurrence as well as the exact chemical reactions in the brain that are cause schizophrenia to occur. According to Schizophrenia:Background, types, and symptoms, schizophrenia affects nearly one out of every one hundred individuals. Many patients of schizophrenia become dependent upon others for assistance in daily life activities due to the disturbances with their thought process, communication abilities, and emotional expressions.
             Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder that enables a person from being able to think logically, decipher the difference between what's real and not real, having normal emotional responses to others, and having difficulty behaving normally in social situations. Those who are schizophrenic will often say and do things that others find hard to understand. Conversations between chronic schizophrenics seem to jump from subject to subject with no obvious transitions. It is as though they are speaking whatever is randomly displayed in their head, with out any logical backing or significance in what is being said.
             Schizophrenia has been diagnosed as being either acute or chronic. According to Kalat, when schizophrenia is diagnosed having an acute, this means that the condition has had a sudden onset but yet still has opportunity for a good recovery. When a patient is diagnosed as having a chronic condition, they have experienced a gradual onset of schizophrenia and will expect a long-term coarse with the disorder. What these two different conditions show is that some who are diagnosed with schizophrenia may only show a few episodes and then recover to never have it again, while others will face permanent schizophrenia (Kalat 476). Those who experience chronic schizophr...