When someone mentions schizo, schizophrenic, or schizophrenia too many think of individual with sporadic outburst or an impromptu outward expression of random thoughts when in fact it is much, much more than that. According to Webster, "a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought (as in hallucinations and delusions), and …showed first 75 words of 1456 total…

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