-Envision that you are sitting in a room and your child comes to you and says that someone is trying to kill him, there is someone in the mirror spying or that on the way to school the bus's radio was sending him special messages. Now what would you think? .
Like myself, you would probably think that your child is playing a bad joke or if it persist, he/she is smoking crystal-meth. You take your child to the doctor your wrong. For one part it is good, but for another part it is bad, your child has just been diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Was your child born with this? Is this genetic? Contagious? What are the symptoms? Does this mean that your child will have a split personality? Schizophrenia is an odd diseases, although a very broad and complicated this is a brief summary of schizophrenia, a treatable but incurable diseases. .
According to the 2002 encyclopedia Britannica edition, in 1899 psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin first diagnosed schizophrenia as Manic-Depressive Psychosis . Kraepelin distinguished at least three subtypes of Manic-Depressive Psychosis (schizophrenia): .
Hebephrenic Inappropriate emotional reactions and behavior .
Paranoia Delusions of grandeur and persecution .
Cationic Motor activities disrupted, negativism, auditory hallucinations.
Later in 1911, Eugen Blauler introduced schizophrenia. He had two functional analysis concerning schizophrenia which was denoting the loss of contact with the reality and ambivalence denoting the coexistence of mutually exclusive contradictions with in the psyche (Bleuler, E. 2002). Later on, more types of schizophrenia were diagnosed. According to the American Psychiatric Association, their 1994 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, there are five subtypes of schizophrenia, along with Paranoia and Catatonic type they diagnosed three more subtypes:.
Residual (Mild symptoms) delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and catatonic behavior.
Schizophrenia is a disease that takes place in the brain. ... It does appear however that Schizophrenia is somewhat genetic. ... (A.D.A.M "Schizophrenia" 2002) There are five different types of Schizophrenia. ... In Catatonic Schizophrenia there is a period of inactivity and striking motor skills. ... (Ryan Irvan, "Schizophrenia" 2001) The diagnosis of Schizophrenia is very difficult. ...
It is a disorder called schizophrenia. ... The exact cause of schizophrenia is not known. ... There have been causes where only one of the identical twins has schizophrenia. ... Studies are also looking at neurotransmitters in the process of developing schizophrenia. ... There are many theories about the causes of schizophrenia. ...
Schizophrenia Introduction Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, disabling brain disease that affects approximately one percent of the population. ... Signs and Symptoms of Schizophrenia Generally, schizophrenia's onset is in adolescence or young adulthood. Schizophrenia affects young men just as much as young women. ... Delusions are also common in those with schizophrenia. ... Suicide is a serious danger to those with schizophrenia. ...
The word schizophrenia means a splitting of the mind. ... Schizophrenia is one of the most common mental disorders. ... Physicians do not know the cause of schizophrenia. ... These newer drugs control the symptoms of schizophrenia with fewer side effects. ... The cause of schizophrenia is unknown. ...
This is how many schizophrenia sufferers go through life. ... There are several symptoms of schizophrenia. One who suffers from schizophrenia may have delusions. ... Schizophrenia is a disease of the brain. ... There is no cure for schizophrenia. ...
During my research I found out that many more people have Schizophrenia than most would like to admit. ... Schizophrenia is a disease that takes over your brain. ... Schizophrenia emerges at different times in men and women. ... I hope this paper has cleared up a few questions about schizophrenia. ... "New Hope for People With Schizophrenia." ...
Types of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a group of disorders that are characterized by the loss of contact with reality, and the marked disturbances of thought and perception as well as bizarre behavior. ... Since then there has been several different classifications of schizophrenia that have been made. ... The first subtype of schizophrenia that I will be discussing is the paranoid subtype. ... The next subtype of schizophrenia is the disorganized type. ... Catatonic schizophrenia is another subtype. ...
People with schizophrenia describe strange of unrealistic thoughts. ... Catatonic schizophrenia is marked by striking motor behavior. ... Schizophrenia seems to be a syndrome of multiple causes and types. Genetics seem to play a role, but there is no single "schizophrenia gene". ... One of the most recent advances in treating schizophrenia is the drug clozapine. ...
A person with catatonic schizophrenia presents a nursing challenge. ... Schizophrenia appears to be extremely complex. ... Schizophrenia always involves change in ability and personality. ... Stress does not cause schizophrenia. ... People with schizophrenia show the same increase in frontal lobe activi...
There are many ways to define what schizophrenia is, not only by what the illness truly is to the different forms of schizophrenia, which includes paranoid schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia and undifferentiated schizophrenia. I will be focusing on what schizophrenia in general is: what the true definition of this common mental illness. ... Schizophrenia is a disease of the brain, which can be one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to humans. ... Schizophrenia deals with an individual who is hearing voices or seeing things that...