Schizophrenia

A schizophrenic patient forgets reality and lives in an imaginary world, and thus cannot distinguish between reality and imagination, thereby their level of functioning and performing daily tasks deteriorates. It is a long-term mental disorder and the suicide rate among schizophrenic patients is very high, which makes early diagnosis and treatment, indispensable.

Schizophrenia symptoms in teenagers are similar to those in adults, but the condition may be more difficult to recognize. This may be in part because some of the early symptoms of schizophrenia in teenagers are common for typical development during teen years