some of the sympotmes

Schizophrenia video
What effect does media have on people’s views of mental illnesses? Most of the time, the media makes a “harsh reality” around people with mental illnesses. Often, people known to have mental illnesses are shown as dangerous. Yes this makes it harder to think straight but, with medication, things are easier. There are more people who are Schizophrenic than you think! An estimated 1% of people worldwide are affected, as I am, with schizophrenia.
Some of the things that schizophrenic people deal with are “People diagnosed with schizophrenia usually experience a combination of positive (i.e. hallucinations, delusions, racing thoughts), and negative (i.e. apathy, lack of emotion, poor or nonexistent social functioning), and cognitive (disorganized thoughts, difficulty concentrating and/or following instructions, difficulty completing tasks, memory problems.(2)” Although a lot of weird things go on, people do have help to deal with this. The hardest time is the experimenting and the beginning point when you first want to do something about it. There are many different ways that the media portray schizophrenic people.
I am used to the struggles that I go through. I know what I’ve overcome and how I have succeeded, but is this enough? Do people really help or do I surrender, and give up being normal, and quit because I am asked? Some treat me with respect. Others shun me. Does society and people in society really know everything like they act? No, they don’t. I didn’t. I have before tried to end a relationship with that simple fact that I had a mental illness. I was convinced that I was a worse person because I was mentally ill. But it just deepens my reality and deepens what I deal with. It helps me have sympathy for others with mental illnesses. It makes me wonder who else is better off because of their illness.