There once was a huge football fan named Tom. He would always go to every football game that he could. But, Tom had a problem. Every time the football teams would go into a huddle to discuss the strategies of the game, Tom would lean over to the person sitting next to him and ask what the team was talking about. He thought they were talking about him and they were discussing ways to hurt him or even kill him. Tom had a disorder called schizophrenia.(Myers, 1999, Psychology) Most of the time when someone hears a person say "that guy is crazy," their first thoughts are probably of the symptoms of schizophrenia. To most people, schizophrenia is viewed as the ideal case of insanity.
The word schizophrenia comes from the Greek wor
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