Schizophrenia Diagnosis
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Help recovery
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
See this article for family and friends of a person with a schizophrenia diagnosis to understand and help the person with recovery from this disorder.
Peer support
National Empowerment Center
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Seeing schizophrenia
LONI (Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA)
See fascinating images of brain structure and functioning. These differ between a person with a schizophrenia diagnosis and a person without that diagnosis.
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First signs
World Fellowship for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders
This list describes the first warning signs that may lead to a schizophrenia diagnosis.
Prevalence of schizophrenia
PubMed
The prevalence of the schizophrenia diagnosis worldwide is difficult to measure. Some of the prior prevalence data is challenged here.
Myths & the media
BUPA
This UK fact sheet includes some of the myths and media stereotypes related to a schizophrenia diagnosis.
Violence and schizophrenia
Psych Central
Thorough analysis of the problems of predicting a relationship between violence and a schizophrenia diagnosis. Two often-quoted studies of this question are examined.
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Financial resource
Medicare
Booklet on Medicare and mental illness may be helpful if you or a family member has a schizophrenia diagnosis.
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What is anosognosia?
Treatment Advocacy Center
Understand why a person with a schizophrenia diagnosis may not recognize that she or he is ill.
Who and when?
Medicine Net
Find out who and when someone with a schizophrenia diagnosis will usually get the disorder.
Experiencing schizophrenia
Reaching Out - Schizophrenia Society of Canada
Video describes the onset of symptoms that later led to a schizophrenia diagnosis, from the perspectives of sufferers, friends and family members.
Diagnosis first
Schizophrenia
Great article on how schizophrenia is diagnosed and current efforts at more scientific schizophrenia diagnosis.
Schizophrenia explored
Wrong Diagnosis
An author who has written a book on his father who had a schizophrenia diagnosis and two psychiatric professionals are interviewed in this video.
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Psychiatric rehab
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston University
Extensive information on psychiatric rehabilitation for people with mental illness, whether with a schizophrenia diagnosis or another diagnosis of psychiatric disorder.
Treatment for schizophrenia
Drug Digest
Excellent basic article on courses of medication treatment when a person has a schizophrenia diagnosis.

