As stated before, schizophrenia is a psychological disorder. The American Psychological Association (thru the Encyclopedia of Psychology) refers to schizophrenia as “a serious mental illness characterized by incoherent or illogical thoughts, bizarre behavior and speech, and delusions or hallucinations, such as hearing voices.” To be diagnosed as a schizophrenic, these symptoms must persist for at least a month and clearly interfere with social interactions, specifically on the job and in group situations. Schizophrenics are split from reality. They do not realize the consequences of their actions nor do they clearly understand what they themselves are doing. Schizophrenia is composed of a variety of symptoms, and as a result, the symptoms are separated into four categories: formal thought disorder, perception disorder, feeling/emotional disturbance, and behavior disorders. Formal thought disorder is when the speech of an individual (diagnosed with schizophrenia) is hard to follow. Sometimes it is hard to follow healthy individual’s speech, but this type of irregular speech includes talking about the same event or issue in different ways, similar to talking in a circle (circumstantiality.) Other instances of speech irregularity include jumping from one subject to the next with no logical connection (looseness of associations) and jumping from one topic to another with a slight connection, but with no relativity to the current issue (tangentiality.) Delusions also fall under this category. Perception disorder is when an individual is experiencing unusual senses, most often in the form of hearing voices. An individual may experience one or two voices, or even more, making comments on their behavior. They refer to the voices as unk... ... middle of paper ... ... even resort to a catatonic state. This disease has no cure as of now, but thanks to research such as MRIs and gene study, there may one day be a cure for this devastating disease. Works Cited American Psychological Association (2013). In Schizophrenia. Retrieved November 23, 2013, from http://www.apa.org/topics/schiz/index.aspx Baird, A. Think psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Ballas, C. (2005, May 11). Health Encyclopedia. Schizophrenia. Retrieved November 23, 2013 from http://www.healthcentral.com/encyclopedia/408/472.html?ic=506048 U.S Department of Health and Human Services. (2009). National Institutes of Health. Schizophrenia. Retrieved November 28, 2013 from http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/schizophrenia/index.shtml#pub10 Zimbardo, P., Johnson, R., & McCann, V. Psychology: core concepts. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education
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Delusions are false or irrational beliefs that are firmly held despite obvious evidence to the contrary. Most common are persecutory, grandiose, and religious delusions.
"From these symptoms, schizophrenia is divided into four sub-types determined by which symptoms are most prevalent", Strauss, 1987). The four sub-types are paranoid, hebephrenic, catatonic, and finally simple. Paranoid schizophrenics often suffer from either delusions, hallucinations, or both of a persecutory content. Hebephrenic schizophrenia is characterized by inappropriate emotions, disorganized...
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According to the DSM-IV, schizophrenia is classified under the section of “Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders”. Schizophrenia is one of the most serious major chronic brain disorders in the field of mental health; it is a neurological disorder that affects the cognitive functions of the human brain. People living with this incapacitating illness can experience multiple symptoms that will cause extreme strain in their own and their families and friends life. The individual can lose reality, unable to work, have delusions and hallucinations, may have disorganized speech and thought processes, will withdraw from people and activities, they may become suspicious and paranoid, may behave inappropriately in every day social situations. They may neglect personal hygiene and dress improperly, use excessive make-up; every day life is becoming chaotic for everyone involved.
[1]Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe brain disorder, though most people may call it an illness. With this disorder the person is more likely to experience “Imaginary friends”,[2] Hearing voices that are not there, and being very paranoid. The people who have schizophrenia are often withdrawn and can be agitated easily. [3]The main thought to the symptoms are known to be paranoia, although the symptoms can vary depending on the person and what type of schizophrenia that he or she may have. [6][7]There are five types of schizophrenia, which include, paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual schizophrenia.
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Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness. Patients experience progressive personality changes and a breakdown in their relationships with the outside world. They have disorganized and abnormal thinking, behavior and language and become emotionally unresponsive or withdrawn.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness most commonly associated with hallucinations. People with severe schizophrenia cannot tell what is real from what is not. Schizophrenia symptoms begin
...ients that suffer severe symptoms. The most common treatment is a combination of medicine and therapy. Where the patient engages in individual psychotherapy with a therapist, rehabilitation, family education, or self help groups. These therapies usually help people cope with schizophrenia and its effects. At this time there is no cure for schizophrenia, there are very effective treatments and medications. Research is being conducted to help scientists understand the disorder better and is being used to try to treat schizophrenia permanently. The only way this is possible is with the use of new treatments, such as new experimental drugs and electrotherapy. No treatments today are preventative nor do they permanently “cure” schizophrenia, but we can look to the bright future for the development of a new treatment option that could potentially fully cure schizophrenia.
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Elyn Saks said, “The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare”. Schizophrenia is a long term mental disorder involving the breakdown between thought, behavior, and emotion. The title “Schizophrenia” is just an umbrella that encompasses more than one type of schizophrenia; such as Paranoid Schizophrenia, Disorganized Schizophrenia, Catatonic Schizophrenia, Residual Schizophrenia, and Schizoaffective Disorder (Mental Health America).
There are many different diagnoses for mental problems these days from anxiety disorders to eating disorders and from mood disorders to obsessive-compulsive disorders. However, I am choosing to write about schizophrenia disorder because I believe that this type of disorder is one of the most dangerous of all mental problems. Throughout this paper I will describe the criteria doctors use to diagnose somebody with schizophrenia as well as the specific DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. This will include the clinical symptoms of schizophrenia such as the positive, negative, and disorganized symptoms. Also I will talk about the etiology and the medical and psychological treatments for schizophrenia. Lastly I will write about the impact this disorder has on the person and the people around them in the real world.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness with psychotic symptoms involving delusions, withdrawal from reality, hallucinations, and character disturbances in both form of thought and affect. A person with schizophrenia may be anxious with others, and may be fearful of everyone around them. Schizophrenia is confused a lot of the time with multiple personality disorder. They are two different disorders, with different symptoms. Schizophrenia disorder is the most disabling and chronic of the mental disorders. It’s associated with abnormalities of the brain function and structure, which causes behavior issues and disorganized speech. Schizophrenia is considered a psychosis or a psychotic disorder. Most people with schizophrenia are not violent and if they