Schizophrenia and Homelessness Name: Institution: Course: Date: Schizophrenia and Homelessness When one is diagnosed with schizophrenia, there are faced with a limitless number of changes that immediately come to their lives. All the goals, dreams, hopes and their future plans are put on hold or their scrapped altogether. Patients have to constantly battle with hallucinations and delusions (Porter, 2015). Some patients will hear voices which convince them that the people that are trying to help them are actually plotting against them. However, one of the most crucial aspect about the schizophrenia patients relates to being homeless. Being homeless increases the level of complexity of the diseases in myriad ways (Caton, Shrout, Eagle, Opler, Felix & Dominguez, 1994). In a typical situation, th
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