Schizophrenia is a behavioral disorder that affects both men and women. This involves difficulty differentiating between real and imagined experiences. The disorder usually appears during adolescence or early adulthood. This is often referred to as multiple personality disorder or multiple personality disorder. Often, people with this condition find themselves socially isolated, mainly because they have difficulty reacting normally and have a generally disorganized mind. Irritability caused by living with a confused mind most of the time often causes feelings of depression, anxiety, and sometimes suicidal thoughts. With treatment, many people are able to live well with this condition, but others have difficulty, leading to many other social problems. In this essay, I hope to explore some first-person accounts of living with and dealing with schizophrenia, as well as some popular cultural texts and scholarly but non-medical texts that discuss schizophrenia. Such a complex disease and its patients have become the subject of study and concern of many different disciplines over the years. This will therefore allow me to extract information from other non-medical disciplines, thus giving a more “real” account of the disease. Two main theorists came up with the illness we know today as schizophrenia; Emil Kreaplien and Eugen Bleuler. Kreaplien initially described “dementia praecox,” something we now understand to be schizophrenia. Kreaplien differentiated between two disorders, manic-depressive illness and dementia praecox and believed that although these disorders were "systematically diverse, they had a common core". Kreaplien believed that the original majo...... middle of article ......bid.Robert Desjarlais, A Reader in Medical Anthropology Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) 160.Robert Desjarlais, A reader in theoretical trajectories in medical anthropology, emerging realities (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) 160.Ibid.Ibid, 163.Ibid.Robert Desjarlais, A reader in theoretical trajectories in medical anthropology, emerging realities (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 ), 164.Ibid.Ibid.Robert Desjarlais, A Reader in Medical Anthropology Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010),166.Ibid.Ibid, 168.Ibid, 170.Jonathon M . Metzl, The Protest Psychosis (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), ix.Ibid.Ibid.Ibid, x.Ibid, xi.Jonathon M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 3.Ibid.