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Schizophrenia

 

            
             "Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing grossly irrational ideas or distorted perceptions."( Meyers 523) Schizophrenia is very similar to multiple personality disorder, paranoia, and even manic depression. Unlike these diseases, however, schizophrenia is of the most emotionally devastating diseases. .
             When doctors and nurses use this word they think of it in a medical perspective and how it will effect the person's body. The person may have a real physical problem with their brain. Psychologists also use this word from a medical stand point by diagnosing and treating the disease. Most schizophrenics can be treated with drug therapy. Most people however don't see schizophrenics as normal people, they see schizophrenics as "psychos", or crazy. The reason why most people don't like people who are schizophrenic is because they are afraid of what the people might do who have the disease. They do not understand the medical aspects of the disease, all they see is the symptoms such as: "Thought disorder, delusions, and hallucinations.An affected person may believe that he is being conspired against (called "paranoid Delusion)." (www.schizophrenia.com. 1) .
             Doctors use the word Schizophrenia in the medical profession to diagnose patients with the disease. Doctors, once they have discovered the person has this disease, can treat it by hospitalization, anti psychotic drugs, counseling, and emotional support. Patients may also use the word in this way while trying to explain their disease to their family and friends.
             The meaning of the word, Schizophrenia, has never really changed. Today, however, doctors, and people know more about the disease due to modern day research. Now we know more about the symptoms, physical effects, and treatments. During the 1700's and 1800's, people who acted like a schizophrenic were sent to asylums, or sanitariums and either tested on, treated like dirt, or locked in a room alone all day.


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