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Five Types Of Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia was first discovered as mental illness by Dr. Emile Kraepelin in 1887, and it is even believed that it actually showed up earlier in history and has pretty much a part of mankind since day one. Although Kraepelin discovered schizophrenia, Eugen Bleuler was the one who “coined” the term. The original meaning of the word schizophrenia means “split mind”, but since the 1800s the definition of this mental illness has definitely gotten stronger with new research and findings. There is a total of five types of schizophrenia, such as; disorganized, catatonic, paranoid, residual, and undifferentiated. The first three types were originally founded by Kraepelin. Both Bleuler and Kraepelin divided these types of schizophrenia into many different …show more content…

Symptoms usually vary between different patients. Some patients are lucky to only experience one psychotic episode in their life, while others have episodes much more frequently. Having these episodes can have a major tole on the body an can cause a decrease in everyday functioning. There is a total of three categories that the symptoms break down into, which is; positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. Positive symptoms are usually not beneficial to the patient but are additional behaviors and symptoms seen in individuals who actually develop schizophrenia. Negative symptoms are behaviors that may possible loose some functionality with the actual diagnosis of schizophrenia. Which means that the patient may suffer from loss of emotion, lowered amounts of energy, low to no motivation, difficult speaking, very poor social skills or even a lack of interest to even socialize, and a blank facial expression almost all the time. Cognitive symptoms are the changes to the patient’s short term worming memory and thinking, and how well they can pay attention and be able to retain information that may be given to

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