schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a chronic progressive highly disabling and distressing disease. Patients suffer from a serious disorder in the ways they perceive the world around them that profoundly decreases their ability to function normally. Specifically, schizophrenia patients have difficulty separating real from imaginary experiences, suffer from inappropriate emotions and behaviours and have difficulty relating to others. As a result patients with schizophrenia often become withdrawn and isolated.