later than males. It is now accepted that men has a single peak age for onset which is between 21 and 25 years old and women have two peaks age of onset, one between 25 and 30 years old”. There’s no research that has explained why women are diagnosed with Schizophrenia later than men except for the analogy that women with Schizophrenia are able to function with it longer. Most men at an early age begin to show signs of Schizophrenia by isolating themselves, pertaining in minuscule amounts of social activity, and abusing controlled substances. Which is alarming for a parent to see their child have this sudden change in behaviour often resulting in seeing a psychiatrist and being diagnosed with Schizophrenia. However, women generally show signs of Schizophrenia as a cry for help their mood begins to change acting particularly depressed and no longer having motivation to do anything. Severe obdurate lack of interest in the things within their life that they used to enjoy. Man also, are more likely to have cognitive issues early on and delayed memory. Yet, women that were diagnosed with the disorder later on down the line were more likely than men to have delusions and hallucinations. Another prevalence that affects the diagnosis rate of Schizophrenia is race. Arnold Barnes, Associate Professor of Sociology at North Carolina A&T, the overdiagnosis of Schizophrenia in African Americans accompanied by the underdiagnosis of mood disorders. Which founded that African Americans were more likely to be misdiagnosed with schizophrenia than Caucasians leaving them susceptible to increased risk of being placed into psychiatric facilities and given the wrong drug treatment. Barnes addresses this racial disparity by stating, “signs of undesirable behavior that doesn’t specifically meet the guidelines of Schizophrenia but, they’re deemed to be unusual or alarming by psychiatrist were still labeled as Schizophrenia rather than a mental disorder” (668). Due to the fact that doctors perspective can often be tainted by their own personal beliefs of how an individual should conduct themselves. Robert Schwartz and David Blankenship, two psychologist at the University of Michigan, emphasize that this racial disparity leading to misdiagnosis is “when clinicians fail to elicit crucial and accurate diagnostic information because of insufficient attention to cultural and contextual factors that shape maladaptive behaviors” (85). Social norms and behavior vary culturally it’s important that this is taken into account so black behaviour or a black person with a mental disorder mistaken for pathology. Annie Murphy Paul, an African American historian, describes an occurrence that she witnessed at the John L. McClellan Veteran>