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  2. Hidden Valley Road - Wikipedia

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    "Hidden Valley Road" is a true story about an American family with twelve children, six of whom are diagnosed with schizophrenia. The eldest, Donald Galvin, was born in 1945, and the youngest, Mary (who later changed her name to Lindsay) was born in 1965. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia.

  3. Surprising Success Of Schizophrenics - AOL

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    When Elyn Saks (pictured above) was diagnosed with schizophrenia decades ago, she was told not to expect to ever have a career, or much of a life. But the University of South Carolina law ...

  4. Schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    About 0.3% to 0.7% of people are diagnosed with schizophrenia during their lifetime. [19] In 2017, there were an estimated 1.1 million new cases and in 2022 a total of 24 million cases globally. [2] [20] Males are more often affected and on average have an earlier onset than females. [2]

  5. Schizophrenics Anonymous - Wikipedia

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    The SA program is based on the twelve-step model, [10] but includes just six steps. [6] [11] The organization describes the program's purpose of helping participants to learn about schizophrenia, "restore dignity and sense of purpose," obtain "fellowship, positive support, and companionship," improve their attitudes about their lives and their illnesses, and take "positive steps towards recovery."

  6. Epidemiology of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Schizophrenia is diagnosed 1.4 times more frequently in males than females, and typically appears earlier in men [7] —the peak ages of onset schizophrenia are 20–28 years for males and 26–32 years for females. [10] Early Onset schizophrenia in childhood, before the age of 13 can sometimes occur.

  7. Mental disorders in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Lover, When You're Near Me, 1952 science fiction short story by Richard Matheson on a man being traumatically steered in his will by a woman of a dull extraterrestrial race who covets him sexually. Dear Diary, 1954 science fiction short story by Richard Matheson. Diary entries from the years AD 1964, AD 3964, and LXIV (=64) all show the same ...

  8. Psychiatric survivors movement - Wikipedia

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    "The most persistent critics of psychiatry have always been former mental hospital patients" [citation needed], although few were able to tell their stories publicly or to openly confront the psychiatric establishment, and those who did so were commonly considered so extreme in their charges that they could seldom gain credibility. [9]

  9. History of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    The stigmatising confusion arises in part due to Bleuler's own use of the term schizophrenia, which for many signalled a split mind, and his documenting of a number of cases with split personalities within his classic 1911 description of schizophrenia. The earliest known use of the term to mean "split personality" was by psychologist G. Stanley ...

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