Schizophrenia is <span>a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
Having schizophrenia can effect your daily functioning in many ways like; </span><span>Change in friends or social isolation, Difficulty at school or job, Sleep problems, Irritability, Difficulty telling reality from fantasy and <span>An increase in unusual thoughts, perceptions and suspicions or paranoia. </span><span>Odd manner of thinking and speaking
</span></span>Harmful alcohol<span> and other drug use, particularly cannabis and amphetamine use, may </span>trigger psychosis<span> in people who are vulnerable to developing </span>schizophrenia<span>. While substance use </span>does<span> not </span>cause schizophrenia<span>, it is strongly related to relapse.</span>