main focus

The main focus in the book The Soloist, is the disease called schizophrenia which a very tragic disease which effects the brain causing people to have abnormal outlook on reality, paranoid delusions and disorganized thinking or speech. Some causes of the disease have to do with the enviornment or genetics. In the book Nathaniel Ayers is the man with this disease but also has to live on the streets which causes this sysmtoms much more saviror. In the book the say that when Nathaniel was a boy he had to go to a mental health hospital to get treatments. It says he was on medicaltion and occationaly got shock treatment, which lead him to run away from home and go to the streets. In most cases schizophrenia is a life time long disease and very small precent of people with the disease get fully cured from it.