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Mental and Emotional Disorders

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             Schizophrenia is a long-term mental disorder that involving the thought, emotion, and behavior, actions and feelings from reality and personal relationships turn into fantasy. Many people get confuse between multiple personalities disorders with the disease of schizophrenia. People that have schizophrenia do not have different personalities but they hear of voices outside their heads. Schizophrenia is caused by brain malfunctions and can be treated with drugs. This disorder is most known for men which is common in the world. People who take medicine for it are able to have normal fulfilling lives. Many people with this disorder would think that they are in the same spot for hours when they are really there for only there for a couple of minutes. Many crimes has been with people with schizophrenia because they don't know which voice they should listen to so they would start to go crazy and kill someone that they didn't mean to. In their mind the voices control what they do because they can't make up their mind of what they want, so the voice inside of them take over and makes the choice for them. Schizophrenic people who do silly strange behaviors, inappropriate emotions, and have messed up speech patterns. (3).
             Many people has experience anxiety and felt depressed at some point in their life. During our lifetime 50% of depression comes from how we want ourselves to be the perfect person that we always wanted to be. Many of the perfectionist want to change others that are not perfectionist to become one. People that are perfectionist has a higher risk to have depression because of all the work that they have to put into. Many people with depression would feel like no one wants them in other peoples lives.(4) Some signs people are depressed are that they would degrade them self by saying they are ugly or that their life is a total mess when everything is fine. Many of them would make everything sound worse than it is but other people don't want to make them feel bad about them having depression.


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