A profound, disabling mental illness is characterized by bizarre, nonreality thinking. What is the illness?
a. Manic depressive
b. Schizophrenia
c. Paranoia
d. Bipolar
ANS: B
Schizophrenia, a thought process disorder, is one of the most profoundly disabling mental illnesses.
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