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Schizophrenia
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If depression is the common cold of
psychological disorders schizophrenia is the
cancer.
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Nearly 1 in a 100 suffer from schizophrenia and
world over 24 million people suffer from this
disease (WHO, 2002).
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Strikes young people as they mature into
adults. Affects men and women equally, but
men suffer from it more severely than women.