PSYCH 9C Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Reclaimed Water, Anticholinergic, Dopamine Antagonist
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Believed people with schizophrenia being more trouble than people with depression. 10-15% of people with this disorder have done things that are violent but not to the degree we think they are: facts, often used the word cancer of mental illness. 1% of us population have schizophrenia and 50% of psychiatrist beds are taken up by 50% of schizophrenia people: age of onset. Symptoms become activated in late teens in men and early 20s women. People are able to get symptoms under control so 1 out of 4 people are ok. 50% of people don"t get rid of symptoms but can function. 50-60% cannot work, do not marry and live in poverty: schizophrenia signs and symptoms, literally means split (fractured) mind, people think multiple personality but it"s not, positive symptoms or psychosis. They truly believed that they were that character.
