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I need help with Schizophrenia?

I have a research paper due about Schizophrenia...and I have some questions:

-Can schizophrenics tell if what they "see" is real or not. Which persons real, which is just a hallucination?

- How do they find out they are schizophrenics?

Any extra info would be great!

if they find out that they have Schizophrenia they usually have to be aware of the possibly that they would be crazy. people with Schizophrenia are totally delusional they are really likely to fall for scams as they are gullible to fall for there own illusions and they can take things way out of context.

First of all I reccommend reading this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophern... because It has TONS of information you can use in your project.
Also...
A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. In psychiatry, the definition is necessarily more precise and implies that the belief is pathological (the result of an illness or illness process). As a pathology it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information or certain effects of perception which would more properly be termed an apperception or illusion.
Karl Jaspers was the first to define the three main criteria for a belief to be considered delusional in his book General Psychopathology. These criteria are:
* certainty (held with absolute conviction)
* incorrigibility (not changeable by compelling counterargument or proof to the contrary)
* impossibility or falsity of content (implausible, bizarre or patently untrue)
That means the patient finds the delusion to be true, just as you would see a red pen to be red.

Also read about hallucinations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinati...
To be noted:
1. Emergence of surprising or warded-off memory or fantasy images [15]
2. Frequent reality checks [15]
3. Last vestige of insight as hallucinations become "real" [15]
4. Fantasy and distortion elaborated upon and confused with actual perception [15]
5. Internal-external boundaries destroyed and possible panentheistic experience [15]

http://www.medicinenet.com/schizophrenia...

thats a great site!

good luck :)

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