The Split Mind

<p>Original edition reissued in 2023 with new cover. This is a print on demand title and is not held in stock. The delivery leadtimes will be longer.</p><p>Have you ever asked yourself what is mental illness? Have you ever wondered what it is like to live with a mental illness? “The Split Mind” enters into the psyche of a person with paranoid schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is an illness that is marked by delusions and disturbed thought. The patient’s state of mind will usually remain in a highly irrational or illusionary state. The patient then loses his sense of the real world in favour of a world that is based purely on false beliefs. This illness inevitably splits the patient’s focus out of the real world into a world based on falsehoods and unattested thoughts.<br />According to researchers schizophrenia is caused by a chemical imbalance. In effect there are abnormal levels of different neurotransmitters within the patient’s brain. Dopamine may be a key neurotransmitter behind delusional thoughts.<br />This chemical imbalance can be corrected through medications or other varying methods. Nevertheless scientists as of yet have not discovered a permanent cure. The recovery process for the patient will usually be slow because he must take certain steps to ensure that a relapse will never occur.<br />As an illness schizophrenia may be no different from any other disease. It is a disease that affects the human brain. No patients develop schizophrenia because of any psychological or behavioural problems. It is a genetic disease that is highly treatable and through perseverance highly recoverable.</p>