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Basic facts about schizophrenia |
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Schizophrenia is: |
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- A brain disease with concrete and specific symptoms due to physical and biochemical changes in the brain
- An illness that strikes young people in their prime - age of onset is usually between 16 and 25
- Almost always treatable with medication
- More common than most people think, affecting 1 in 100 people worldwide - that’s about 300,000 Canadians, including over 40,000 of our British Columbia
neighbours
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Schizophrenia is not: |
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- A “split personality”
- Caused by childhood trauma, bad parenting, or poverty
- The result of any action or personal failure by the individual
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More information on schizophrenia
An abridged version of an introductory booklet prepared by the B.C. Schizophrenia Society’s provincial office.
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Further details
For further details on the illness and its various aspects, including early psychosis, please go to our
Information and
Links pages. For books on schizophrenia, see our bibliography.
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