Disorganized Schizophrenia and Methodist Unity Point

I chose to write my research paper over Schizophrenia. It is a psychological disorder that I have always found fascinating. It is a serious disorder that consumes a person's life and is nearly impossible to control. In this paper, I will talk about the definition of Schizophrenia, the diagnosis of Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia in children, suicide, sexually related characteristics of the disease, sleep disorders caused by the disease, differences in the disease on different ethnicities, and insensitivity to pain.

American Psychiatric Association (APA). 2000. Schizophrenia. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth Edition, Text

​This paper will cover the symptoms, causes and treatments to the disorder schizophrenia. Also how lifestyle is tougher on those with the terrible illness of schizophrenia.

Corvin, Aiden. "The Changing Faces Of Schizophrenia." New Scientist 216.2890 (2012): 30-31. Academic Search Premier. Web. 6 Dec. 2016.)

According to NAMI (), schizophrenia is a long term mental illness that interferes with a person’s ability to think clearly, make decisions, and relate to others, impairing a person from functioning to their full potential when left untreated. For these persons affected, it is many times difficult to distinguish what is real from what is not. “Unfortunately, no single simple course of treatment exists.” Research has linked schizophrenia to a multitude of possible causes” (NAMI).

Schizophrenia affects about 2.5 million Americans and 24 million worldwide. However, not everything is known about the mental illness. What part of the brain Schizophrenia affects and the different types of tests used to detect it. What medications have shown the best results, but what are their side effects that may come with? Is it worth the risk? Also what are all the possible ways Schizophrenia can be instigated?

Imagine having to always be in fear that your child is trying to commit suicide and self-harm, or hearing voices and seeing things that tell them to kill their own family. Schizophrenic people often have a loss of contact with reality, in turn effecting the person as well as the family. The disorder affects a person’s ability to distinguish between what is reality and what is fantasy, people diagnosed with the disorder are affected by delusions, hallucinations, social withdrawal, disturbed thoughts and unusual behavior. It interferes with a person 's ability to think clearly, express emotions, make decisions and relate to others. They may see or hear things that are not there, speak in odd or confusing ways, believe that others are trying to harm them, or feel as though they are constantly being watched. Unfortunately, a single, simple way of schizophrenia treatment does not exist. Schizophrenia is a challenging brain disorder that affects the way a person thinks, acts and sees the world. Research has connected schizophrenia to many possible causes, including aspects of brain structure, environmental, and genetic causes.

Schizophrenia – a term that has many negative connotations. Many people consider those who suffer from schizophrenia to be “crazy” or “psychos”. Far beyond the thoughts regulating about schizophrenia, it is a very serious mental disorder that is often misunderstood. Schizophrenia is “a group of disorders characterized by severely impaired disintegration, affective disturbances, and social withdrawal,” (Sue, D., Sue, D.W., Sue, D., Sue, S., 2013, p. 348). Comparatively to the idea that people with schizophrenia have at least some control over their disorder, schizophrenia is extremely painful to endure, and it potentially only goes into partial remission with the help of medication.

(Szasz,1982, p.4, p.29) In 1900, the term schizophrenia, now used worldwide, was used to describe the condition that one out of every hundred people had. This statistic remains the same today. Through research and years of study, the world has a better understanding of schizophrenia, its forms, characteristics, symptoms, types, possible causes, and treatments, if any. ( Pierce, 1990. p.263 )

Lewis, D. A. (2000). Catching Up on Schizophrenia: Natural History and Neurobiology. Retrieved from ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627300001112

Over the course of this paper, I will be going through the three main categories related to Schizophrenia; Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment.

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Schizophrenia is discussed both in this article and the textbook but with a different focus in each. The article is more focused on the family member or caregivers who take care of the individuals suffering from the disease and how their lives have changed as well.

Procedure: To identify all relevant primary studies, computerized PubMed searches for an inclusive list of descriptors were performed and searched the reference lists of prior reviews of schizophrenia to identify any reports not retrieved in the PubMed search. 14 published

The signs and symptoms of schizophrenia may change and act differently depending on the patient. As stated in the National Institute of Mental Health website under the Schizophrenia web-page, “The symptoms of schizophrenia fall into three categories: positive, negative, and cognitive.”(2016) I went into further research of the symptoms under the same web-page. What I found was pretty surprising and it really helped me understand how it affected its patients.