Schizophrenia

Psychology


 * //__Schizophrenia: What is it? What are some treatments?__//**

By __//Guillermo Garcia//__
**__ Schizophrenia __** is a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder that causes humans to hallucinate in the matter of seeing things that are not really there and sometimes those hallucinations hurt them in their mind, hearing noises like talking that demoralizing them often saying they are stupid and weak. The voices in their head usually target their weak spot normally saying they are going to harm him or kill him they also belive people are reading their mids or trying to control their behavior and thoughts, this can usually make people with this illnes become terrified on the world and easily being agitated. Schizophrenia has no know cause or treatments, doctors or psychologysts can only help deteriorate the effects of schizophrenia, the only known cause of schizophrenia is to be drugs that can affect your brain and cause hallucinations. Schizophrenia is also called split personality disorder because the affected patient can develop different personalities for example if you have schizophrenia you can develop an alter ego of you having six years of age and acting that way. One percent of people in the united states have schizophrenia of about two million americans one percent have that disorder.

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 * Paranoid schizophrenia: The individual is preoccupied with one or more delusions or many auditory hallucinations but does not have symptoms of disorganized schizophrenia.
 * Disorganized schizophrenia: Prominent symptoms are disorganized speech and behavior, as well as flat or inappropriate affect. The person does not have enough symptoms to be characterized as catatonic schizophrenic.
 * Catatonic schizophrenia: The person with this type of schizophrenia primarily has at least two of the following symptoms: difficulty moving, resistance to moving, excessive movement, abnormal movements, and/or repeating what others say or do.
 * Undifferentiated schizophrenia: This is characterized by episodes of two or more of the following symptoms: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behavior, catatonic behavior or negative symptoms, but the individual does not qualify for a diagnosis of paranoid, disorganized, or catatonic type of schizophrenia.
 * Residual schizophrenia: While the full-blown characteristic positive symptoms of schizophrenia (those that involve an excess of normal behavior, such as delusions, paranoia, or heightened sensitivity) are absent, the sufferer has less severe forms of the disorder or has only negative symptoms (symptoms characterized by a decrease in function, such as withdrawal, disinterest, and not speaking).