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What is schizophrenia? |
What is schizophrenia? schizophrenia Any of a group of severe mental disorders that have in common symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, blunted emotions, disorganized thinking, and withdrawal from reality. Five main types are recognized: the paranoid, characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur combined with unrealistic, illogical thinking and frequent auditory hallucinations; the disorganized (hebephrenic), characterized by disordered speech and behaviour and shallow or inappropriate emotional responses; the catatonic, characterized by motor inflexibility or stupor along with mutism, echolalia, or other speech abnormalities; the simple or undifferentiated type, which conforms to basic definitions of schizophrenia but does not exhibit particular behaviours in the aforementioned types; and the residual type, which is a chronic stage indicating advancement toward later-stage schizophrenia. Schizophrenia seems to occur in 0.5鈥?% of the general population, and more than half of those so diagnosed will eventually recover. There is strong evidence that genetic inheritance plays a role, but no single cause of schizophrenia has been identified. Stressful life experiences may help trigger its onset. Treatment consists of drug therapy and counseling-. For more details read - http://www.answers.com/schizophrenia... Source(s): -http://www.answers.com/schizophrenia/bri... Concise Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that affects about 1 percent of people all over the world. People with schizophrenia sometimes hear voices others don鈥檛 hear, believe that others are broadcasting their thoughts to the world, or become convinced that others are plotting to harm them. These experiences can make them fearful and withdrawn and cause difficulties when they try to have relationships with others. A MENTAl DiSORDER WHEN YOU lOSE A SENSE OF REAliTY... MY HEAlTH BOOK Schizophrenia is a mental illness where the brain is not very able to distinguish reality from some of the other processes going on inside it and so reality becomes a little blurry. This can be quite distressing for someone who suffers from schizophrenia. They will talk about how they can hear voices (auditory hallucinations) and how various things may be giving them messages or how someone or something is taking thoughts out of their head (reading their mind) or putting thoughts into their head etc. They can develop bizarre delusions about the goings on around them - eg that people are out to get them (paranoia). IT IS NOT, as is commonly supposed, a multiple personality where the mind can exhibit two or more personas. This is a totally different condition known as Multiple Personality Disorder (or Dissociative Identity Disorder). Have a read of the wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/schizophren... |
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