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How do doctors diagnose schizophrenia?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Diagnosis is: made by history, observation and input from relatives/ significant others. Mayo Clinic Defines Schizophrenia as “a severe brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior.”

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