Schizophrenia What Is It Signs Types Common Questions
But you’re also far from correct. “If four percent of the general population exhibits violent behavior, maybe seven percent of the schizophrenic population does,” says William T. Carpenter, MD, one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia in the U.S. and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. “There is a large stigma associated with this disease, and a lot of that is fed by a lack of understanding of what schizophrenia really is....