Suppress me, myself and IR. D. Laing said: “Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair” (“Schizophrenia Quotes” 1). In his statement, he reveals a side of schizophrenia that is more than a mental disorder, he shows how vulnerable and painful the disorder can be for those who are diagnosed with it. Patients diagnosed with such a challenging obstacle may often feel a sense of hopelessness in trying to overcome schizophrenia and its symptoms. Medication for mental disorder has advanced, so that those affected can manage and control the symptoms that accompany schizophrenia to live a healthy and fulfilling life. People today are not fully educated about schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects millions of people from one country to another. In today's emerging world, the number of men and women over the age of eighteen suffering from schizophrenia reaches 1.1% (“Schizophrenia” 1). Schizophrenia, on average, begins between the ages of sixteen and thirty and normally men accumulate the disease earlier than women. With mental disorder, “positive” and negative symptoms occur. “Positive” symptoms include: hallucinations, disordered speech, delusions, and catatonic behavior. Negative symptoms include: loss of interest and motivation, rollercoaster emotions, difficulty extracting obvious clues, and feeling in a mood that is difficult to understand, such as depression (Frankenburg 1). Schizophrenia has been studied and determined to have five different categories. Paranoid schizophrenia occurs when the patient shows signs of suspicion and the thought of always being persecuted. Disorganized schizophrenia is determined by the patient's behavior of having a......paper patient......zophrenic and matching him with a person without the disorder. From their research it was discovered that older fathers are more likely to pass on the hereditary gene to their offspring (Goff 2). Scientists have scanned brain after brain of schizophrenics and people without the disorder, to conclude that, by about 3 percent, the brain of a schizophrenic is smaller than that of a human who does not have the disorder (“How It Develops schizophrenia..." 1). Scientists have also discovered another difference between schizophrenic patients and those who do not have the disease. "MRI and CT scans of schizophrenic patients indicate that the ventricles, cavities filled with spinal fluid, are on average 40% larger ("HowDerdivanis 5Schizophrenia Develops..." 1). Any signs of schizophrenia in the genes should be treated on as soon as possible to minimize any further struggle with mental illness.