Benny And Joon: Living With Schizophrenia

These two symptoms are enough to allow him to meet criteria A, however he also fulfills another symptom: Disorganized speech. This is not a symptom either Josh or his mother talks about; however there is a clear case of this during the course of the show. It is again when he is in the car. After wondering if anyone else heard a voice, he starts on a disorganized rant about ribbons and the sun, and later trails off, seemingly unable to answer the questions asked by his

Susanna displayed the first symptom, “frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment” through her fear and depression from her childhood. She felt that she could not make satisfactory decisions through out her life because of the lack of communication with her parents and their lack of understanding. Some of her depressive behaviors come from that fact that her parents sent her to the mental hospital without notice and did not say goodbye. She states that the reason she was in the hospital is because of her family and that they are absent from her hospital life. She displays her fear of abandonment through the question she constantly poses; is she as absent from their lives outside as

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects one out of 100 people and presents with both positive and negative symptoms. Misconceptions of people with schizophrenia may include a belief that they are violent however they are more likely to be the victims of violence as of result of their abnormal behaviors. Positive symptoms may include the presence of symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and abnormal behavior whereas negative symptoms indicate a lack of a particular behavior. A positive symptom of schizophrenia may include hallucinations which are typically auditory hallucinations although may also be visual hallucinations in which clients experience some event despite a lack of stimuli. A negative symptom

Helen has reported that she has mood swing and that she has suicidal ideation as well having feeling uncontrollable over her own body. She denies and audio or visual hallucinations. Helen is showing signs of bipolar disorder DSM 296.62.

The memoir Brain on Fire, written by author Susannah Cahalan, describes the journey she lived through with an undiagnosed disease. Susannah goes from being a New York Times journalist to being a person who couldn’t control herself and had to be strapped down to the hospital bed, in other words she was becoming psychotic. She did not choose to become the person she was in the hospital, someone who had no control over her body, someone who was lost. This got to a the point to where nurses no longer wanted to treat her and lost their patience because she was not being cooperative and was becoming more violent.The reason as to why she became this person was due to the misdiagnosing, doctors not taking time to do further test and family not thinking her symptoms were serious enough to have an actual disease. The signs were there but no one thought anything about it, as they thought she was over exaggerating. It wasn’t until she had her first seizure and the fact that she was hospitalized that her family, friends and even the doctors finally realized there was something wrong.

SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophrenia, from the Greek word meaning “split mind”, is a mental disorder that causes complete fragmentation in the processes of the mind. Contrary to common belief, schizophrenia does not refer to a person with a split personality or multiple personalities, but rather to a condition which affects the person’s movement, language, and thinking skills. The question of whether schizophrenia is a disease or collection of socially learned actions is still a question in people’ mind. People who are suffering from schizophrenia think and act in their own the world and put themselves in a way that is totally different from the rest of society. In other words, they have lost in touch with the reality. Most schizophrenics accept

To begin with the primary symptom that is mostly seen in every chapter and during her visits to the psychiatrist are delusions. We begin to see these symptoms during her prologue in which she says, “I hide in the stacks until well after midnights, sitting on the floor muttering to myself. It grows quiet. The lights are being turned off. Frightened of being locked in, I finally scurry out, ducking through the shadowy library so as not to be seen by any security

She was for sure the that pests had attacked her studio even though the exterminator found no sign of bedbugs, but Cahalan insisted to spray for them just in case. She hid her bug bites from her co-workers. She had a fear that they would judge her if they thought she had bed bugs. She began to get scared and hallucinate. Susannah’s love ones all began to see Susannah that they didn’t know in the past, she had mental and emotional issues. As the disease worsen, her movements became awkward, her speech became slurred, and having seizures. Doctors kept on saying she was normal and no type of disease would show up on her results. A doctor admitted her into New York University medical school hospital. Cahalan was in the hospital about a month before the accurate diagnosis, prior to the other doctors thought of a plethora of conditions and a bipolar disease and schizophrenia to dire physical ailments including cancer. There was a doctor named Dr. Najjar who was known for solving medical mysteries and didn’t take long to figure out what was the problem. He gave her a simple clock test and ask her to draw a clock with all the numbers. When drew the full clock, he knew immediately that the

From the video, Diaries of a Broken Mind, Tilly was/is suffering from Anorexia Nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder, characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss. Plus, inadequate food intake leading to a weight that is clearly too low and intense fear of weight gain, obsession with weight and persistent behavior to prevent weight gain. Likewise, Abby and Ashley were/are struggling with Bipolar disorders- Abby Bipolar I and Ashley Bipolar II. The common symptoms of bipolar depression include, feeling hopeless, sad, or empty. Irritability, inability to experience pleasure, fatigue, or loss of energy, physical and mental sluggishness. During a hypomanic episode, the elevated mood can manifest itself as either euphoria (feeling “high”) or as irritability. Symptoms during hypomanic episodes include: Flying suddenly from one idea to the next having exaggerated self-confidence Rapid, “pressured” (uninterruptable) and loud speech. Increased energy, with hyperactivity and a decreased need for sleep.

Rationale: Jennifer has been presenting with symptoms for unspecified amount of time. Jennifer meets six of the criteria for symptoms being present during the same 2-week period and represents a change from previous functioning. Jennifer is depressed most of the day, nearly every day, has diminished interest in all or almost all activities most of the days, nearly every day, has fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished ability to think or concentrate, is having recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan. The symptoms have cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, and other functioning areas. There is no know substance or medical condition and occurrence is not better explained by Schizophrenia Spectrum or Psychotic Disorders. Jennifer has never had a manic episode or a hypomanic episode. Possible family history of depression - mother.

Schizophrenia is a disease that has plagued societies around the world for centuries, although it was not given its formal name until 1911. It is characterized by the presence of positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms are so named because of the presence of altered behaviors, such as delusions, hallucinations (usually auditory), extreme emotions, excited motor activity, and incoherent thoughts and speech. (1,2) In contrast, negative symptoms are described as a lack of behaviors, such as emotion, speech, social interaction, and action. (1,2) These symptoms are by no means concrete. Not all schizophrenic patients will exhibit all or even a majority of these symptoms, and there is some

Schizophrenia has many different behaviors and moods with disorders of thoughts and movement (Nimh.nih.gov, 2016). Schizophrenia has three classifications of symptoms, positive, negative, and cognitive. Positive symptoms are psychotic symptoms, usually auditory hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior (Frankenburg, 2015). Other positive symptoms are dysfunctional ways of thinking and disturbed body movements. Negative symptoms are expressed primarily through emotions and behaviors. Negative

Note: This stage is sometimes confused with Resignation, which is when the patient could not care less about her/his ordeal, thinks

2011). Varcarolis et al. 2006 describe positive symptoms of schizophrenia as ‘florid psychotic symptoms’ ‘as they capture attention’. Cognitive deficits lay primarily within the domains of memory and language affecting mood and behaviour (Elder et al. 2009). Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include delusions, hallucinations and sever thought process disturbances and have an acute onset (Elder et al. 2009).Varcarolis, Carson and Shoemaker (2006) state that a patient experiencing a delusion is convinced that what they perceive is real and consequently the patients thinking often reflects feelings of great fear, isolation and trust issues. Additionally Elder et al. (2009) state that cognitive deficits are considered psychotic symptoms and that behaviours, perceptions and beliefs shown in a person having an exacerbation of schizophrenia are not consistent with normal human experience.

JG demonstrates poor insight and will engage in denial or sabotage. She can be impulsive and responds to needs in the moment rather than inhibiting her immediate desires for long-term goals. She struggles with respect and valuing herself, with inflexibility in thought processing, displays poor judgment and limited insight. She also has difficulties with accepting responsibility whenever she does something wrong and will instead ask to be removed from her current home and