We hear on the news that a person has committed a murder, or even a treasonous crime. The first thing that comes to mind is that there must be something wrong with that person, but in reality there is nothing wrong with that person at all. So are mentally ill people criminals too? Studies suggest that there is no correlation between mental illness and crime. Why do we as people tend to think that people with mental disorders are so dangerous? According to a recent survey conducted. About 60% of people surveyed said they believed people with schizophrenia were dangerous. But are they really as dangerous as everyone makes them out to be? As stated on the following website, “Schizophrenia.com”: “People with schizophrenia are much more likely to harm themselves than to be violent towards the public. Violence is not a symptom of schizophrenia. The media and entertainment tend to link mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, to criminal violence. Most people with schizophrenia, however, are not violent towards others but are withdrawn and prefer to be left alone. Drug or alcohol abuse increases the risk of violence in people with schizophrenia, particularly if the illness is untreated, but also in people who do not suffer from mental illness. When violence occurs, it is more frequently directed against family and friends, and it occurs more often at home. but to oneself. Schizophrenia is defined as “psychiatric disorder with symptoms of withdrawal into oneself: a severe psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality and withdrawal… half of the sheet… adverts to suicide which is no better than being mentally ill. Knowing a person with this type of disorder, you are more harmful to yourself rather than to others. So, why do we, as people who are not close to people with this disorder, think that people with this disorder are so criminally compromised? For starters, the way the world sees people is that if you have a mental illness, anything done wrong is all the person's fault when in reality. . They did nothing but themselves. When people commit crimes, something has to be right in their head to know what they are doing. Most of the crimes committed today are committed by people who are not even from our country. Take 9/11 for example. This was a very impactful thing that affected most if not all of the United States. When Bin Laden sent his people crashing into our twin towers where MANY people worked.