Re: Ask me about working in a psychiatric hospital
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If you had to guess, what do you think is the proportion of people who have onsets of schizophrenia, or are "functioning" schizos in the "real world" vs. ones in clinics/hospitals?
Do you think the majority of people that have this disease are diagnosed and treated?
Or is there a large percentage that goes undiagnosed/misdiagnosed because they do not seek professional help or are never found out to have it?
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It is pretty much impossible to have schizophrenia in the states and go without diagnosis. Unlike most other mental disorders (e.g., autism), schizophrenia really doesn't have a 'milder' form. However, the extent to which a person with schizophrenia is exhibiting severe symptoms will ebb and flow.
There are functional schizophrenics, but they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. I'd guess the ratio would be something like 10:1 but that is really a wild ass guess.
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