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Running head: THE IMPACT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophrenia: Introduction and Overview Student ID: 2540 (AP205) Southern Cross International College (Path Education Singapore) Schizophrenia: Introduction and Overview Diseases of the brain and mind have occupied humanity from ancient times. Syndromes recognizable as forms of psychosis appear in the writings of Plato and Hippocrates. Psychosis is a syndrome such as a constellation of symptoms that reflects the distortion of the person's thoughts and perceptions such that there is a loss of boundaries between what is real and what is unreal, between himself or herself and the external world. And Schizophrenia, itself is a form of psychosis, characterized by a multiplicity of symptoms affecting the most fundamental human attributes: cognition, emotion and perception - a mind that is torn asunder. The early age of onset, varying degree of intellectual and psychosocial impairment, possibility of long-term disability and above all associated stigma, often brings to its victims and their...

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