What is your opinions/thoughts on schizophrenia?

I think with the right medication one could live a normal life. Though I also think that just because one has an mental illness does not make them a bad person. I don't believe that it is the persons fault that they have schizophrenia and that it is sad if someone has it and doesn't get treated.

there are many different types of schizophrenia and i think that if people get on the right meds and get the right therapy that people with it can live fairly normal lives. i have known some people with schizophrenia and they are great wonderful people and a lot of fun to be around. hope this helps
It's a terrible thing to have to live with, not only for the sufferer but, the whole family.
The effects of the disease affects everyone.
It's a divided way of living. Presence in this moment may interrupt, slow down, or reverse and cure it.... although I'd very much recommend doing this with a bandaid (medicine).... or you'll just bleed all over.
It's mostly drug induced symptoms read Robert Whitakers Mad in America book for a view on this.
well i have it and its a very difficult illness to take control of for me i had it for so long before i was diagnosed that i started to loose track of what was real and what was not my thoughts were radical and i would do very random things and was often told i was like a walking time bomb i would go of and know one would know when.

in saying that people with schizophrenia aren't violent people towards others but they are known to hurt them selves because they cant handle the way they feel and cant control their thoughts also about 40% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia will commit suicide as a result.

if you take medication though it can be controled and you can go on to live a normal life and for me i have learnt to controll my thoughts and what is crap and what isn't and now i am off my medication.

if you have it your self or know someone who does there are alot of good sites you can find through google that will help you understand all aspects of it.
Its a terrible mental disease. My daughters father whom I never married, committed suicide last October from this. The whole thing was so sad. I don't believe his sister could help him very much either since she has the same thing. It scares me knowing its all through his family . I have to pay very close attention to my daughter. She's 21 now and I've been told it never really "hit" the people in his family until late to mid 30's.