PSYCH 094: Global Burden of Schizophrenia
Medlock Holmes arrives at the Hall of Human Burden.
Unlike previous investigations, this hall contains no microscopes, MRI scanners, or genetic maps.
Instead, the walls are covered with clocks.
Some clocks have stopped too early.
Others continue to tick, but their hands barely move, representing lives lived with profound disability rather than early death.
Holmes quickly realises that measuring illness is not simply about counting deaths.
Many illnesses kill.
Others steal decades of healthy living.
Schizophrenia belongs overwhelmingly to the second group.
At the centre of the hall stands an…
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