Child Onset Schizophrenia
In this video and related article, the parents of 6-year-old schizophrenia sufferer January Schofield discuss the difficulties in coping with the symptoms of their daughter's illness. January suffers from child-onset schizophrenia, which experts say is 20 to 30 times more severe than adult-onset schizophrenia. Her parents, Michael and Susan Schofield, discuss the extreme measures they've been forced to take to treat their daughter's condition, to protect their younger child from his sister,...
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Schizophrenia
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