Outdated perceptions of schizophrenia

The media has supplied the general population with caricatures and stereotypes of people who have schizophrenia through films, TV and the news. In some cases, it portrays people with the condition being unable to work – this is not true. There are supported employment programs out there that help people with schizophrenia and other mental health problems work in competitive jobs.
For example, in a randomised trial, individuals with schizophrenia performed well in comparison to their counterparts and some outperformed those with other diagnoses. Cook and colleagues believed that it was particularly noteworthy because “at study baseline, individuals with schizophrenia had significantly higher levels of symptoms, greater number of months hospitalised over their lifetimes, younger ages of illness onset, lower education, poorer...
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