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Schizophrenia affects over 1% of the world s population and affects the way a person thinks, feels and behaves. In most cases, it is diagnosed when a person is between the ages of 16 to 25. This condition can be hereditary and is said to affect men more often than women. Schizophrenia is characterized by an inability to distinguish between real and imaginary which can lead to delusions, social withdrawal, hallucinations and other forms of social and occupational dysfunction.

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Antipsychotic medications reduce the risk of future psychotic episodes in patients who have recovered from an acute episode. Even with continued drug treatment, some people who have recovered will suffer relapses. Far higher relapse rates are seen when medication is discontinued. In most cases, it would not be accurate to say that continued drug treatment ?prevents? relapses; rather, it reduces their intensity and frequency. The treatment of severe psychotic symptoms generally requires higher do...more

Dear lybrate-user,
Please understand schizophrenia so that you can make your brother live with dignity. Unless you write in detail about the symptoms at present and the efforts you and your parents have taken so far, it is difficult to reply. Most often people living with schizophrenia don't know that they are sick. So they don't co operate with treatment. Once the treatment is discontinued for any reason (no improvement, side effect, sleeping too much, putting on weight, can not afford, it ...more