Today, almost one in every hundred people in the United States is schizophrenic. One percent of the population suffers from the illness, yet its profile stays low and, on a dollars-per-new-case basis, schizophrenia* receives few government research funds. Given that they are virtually invisible now, the exclusion of schizophrenics from history becomes believable.
These statistics really surprised me -- had no idea schizophrenia affected 1% of people in the US.
