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- Schizophrenia affects one in one hundred people
- Schizophrenia occurs all over the world.
- Some patients with schizophrenia only ever suffer from
one psychotic episode and some have many over the years.
- Although very rare children of over five years old can
develop schizophrenia.
- The most common type of hallucination experienced by schizophrenia
sufferers is auditory but patients can also have visual,
tactile, gustatory (taste) and olfactory (smell) hallucinations.
- Only one third of suffers have paranoid-type symptoms.
- Approximately ten percent of schizophrenia sufferers will
commit suicide.
- Young male sufferers are more likely to commit suicide
than females.
- Signs and symptoms of schizophrenia usually first manifest
in young adulthood and adolescence.
- The rates of schizophrenia are similar in most countries.
- Both sexes are at the same risk of developing the disorder.
- Males usually develop the illness earlier in their life
than women.
- The majority of schizophrenia patients suffer throughout
their lives whether it is ongoing or recurring.
- Only approximately one in five recover from their schizophrenia
completely.
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