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  2. 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 ...

  3. Genain quadruplets - Wikipedia

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    All four of the sisters developed schizophrenia by the age of 24. [2] There was a history of mental illness in Mr. Genain's family that might have been an example of genetics being linked with mental illness or it may have just been a dysfunctional and abusive family free from a specific genetic component. Mr.

  4. How One Woman Describes Living With Schizophrenia - AOL

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    Michelle Hammer wants you to know schizophrenia.To know the illness is to know her. "I go, 'listen, no couches were harmed in the making of this video.'… People with schizophrenia can have a job ...

  5. List of people with schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Regarding posthumous diagnoses: only a few famous people are believed to have been affected by schizophrenia. Most of these listed have been diagnosed based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them. Also, persons prior to the 20th century may have incomplete or speculative diagnoses of schizophrenia.

  6. Schizoid personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Schizoid personality disorder (/ ˈ s k ɪ t s ɔɪ d, ˈ s k ɪ d z ɔɪ d, ˈ s k ɪ z ɔɪ d /, often abbreviated as SzPD or ScPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, [9] a tendency toward a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, detachment, and apathy. [10]

  7. Woman with schizophrenia draws her terrifying hallucinations

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    Instead of letting her hallucinations take over her life, an 18-year-old with schizophrenia has found an original way to cope. The Los Angeles native, whose name is Kate, draws her hallucinations ...

  8. Mental disorders and gender - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, women constitute 85-95% of people with anorexia nervosa and bulimia and 65% of those with a binge-eating disorder. [22] Factors that contribute to the gender disproportionality of eating disorders are perceptions surrounding "thinness" in relation to success and sexual attractiveness and social pressures from mass media ...

  9. Sex differences in schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    For both men and women, incidence of schizophrenia onset peaks at multiple points across the lifespan. [3] For men, the highest frequency of incidence onset occurs in the early twenties and there is evidence of a second peak in the mid-thirties. For women, there is a similar pattern with peaks in the early twenties and middle age. [6]