Aussies don’t understand schizophrenia

Four in 10 Australians have little or no understanding of what schizophrenia is – yet almost a quarter of Australians know somebody with the illness, a new survey has found. The survey, commissioned by Janssen-Cilag in partnership with the Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia, was released ahead of Schizophrenia Awareness Week (May 17 – 24).