e disease. They begin to organize different personalities and thoughts in the brain. They begin believing and listening to people inside their hands that are figments of their imagination. They move from having simple hallucinations and into having delusions. Delusions are more defined and garish hallucinations. Now the schizophrenic is convinced that they believe in those internal voices and that those voices are real. At the same time the delusions become more and more eccentric ( involving situations that occur in real life such as being followed, being poisoned, or having a secret admirer). Hallucinations are slightly different. Hallucinations occur without any outside stimulation. It is somewhat an unsupported and random figment of the imagination. After a thorough discussion of the symptoms, one can begin to dissect why this happens. There are some ultimate and immediate causes of the disease. There is some evidence that heredity has something to due with one getting schizophrenia. Often, just as most diseases, most children of schizophrenics are simply predisposed to the disease. And although there is no direct correlation between schizophrenia in a child and a parent, the probability of a child getting the disease , is about 5% higher than the average person. There is also some evidence that there is some "neurodevelopment disorder" which says that the person with schizophrenia may have genes that produce abnormalities in the brain during development in the fetus. "Paul Eugene Bleeder, one of the great early authorities on schizophrenia, concluded that its symptoms were the result of several different disease processes rather than a single one. New studies of the brain are now confirming Bleeder's insight. In some cases schizophrenia appears to result from a failure of development in the middle three months of pregnancy that leaves the brain vulnerable in early adulthood, when the programmed elimination of redundant...
