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What you need to know about schizophrenia

Schizophrenia can affect anyone from all races and cultures. [iStockphoto]

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe mental disorder that affects the way a person thinks, acts, perceives reality and relates to others. Schizophrenia involves psychosis, a type of mental illness in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. At times, people with psychotic disorders lose touch with reality.

Dr Sarah Kanana Kiburi, Consultant Psychiatrist at Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi gives insights about this condition, presentation, causes and management.

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