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... illness. Details obtained from this questionnaire will be discussed later on. Schizophrenia is a common psychotic disorder. It is truly puzzling. At times, people with Schizophrenia communicate clearly, have accurate views of reality, and function well in every day life. But at other times their speech and thinking and slurred and garbled, they kind of lose touch with reality, and are not able to care for themselves in the most basic of ways. The APA manual's definition of Schizophrenia, as quoted from Salinger (1973) (cited in Website 1) in Schizophrenia: Behavioural aspects, regards the disorder as affecting thinking, mood, and behaviour. Concept formation is disturbed potentially leading to hallucinations and delusions, the mood often becomes emotionally inappropriate and apathetic, and the behaviour may grow to be reclusive and bizarre. 90% of people with Schizophrenia seek treatment in a mental health facility or general medicine facility in any given year (Narrow ...