Living With Schizophrenia (Johnson & Johnson)

This uplifting 22 minute video shows interviews with patients living with schizophrenia, and mental health professionals who treat them. It shows how people diagnosed with schizophrenia can live normal lives.

Schizophrenia is perceived either with indifference or fear.
It is a medical illness. It is not a moral problem or a problem with your intellect, but just a chemical imbalance in your brain.

Schizophrenia is a brain disorder.

Positive symptoms:
* hearing voices
* having false beliefs
* being in delusional states

Negative symptoms:
* difficulty with energy
* decreased motivation
* emotional flatness/shallowness

Recovery is about confidence and intelligence. To understand deeply why you get up out of bed in the morning and start doing the things you do.