Jacobman Schizophrenia Analysis

In this video, there is a guy named Gerald with schizophrenia which the book describes it as a disorder characterized by disturbances in thought, perception, and attention. The positive, negative, and disorganized symptoms that I notice are from Gerald in this video were: disorganized speech and disorganized behavior, hallucinations, paranoia, inappropriate emotions, loose associative thinking, poor attention and memory, delusions, non-abstract language, grandiose delusions, ideas of reference, thought broadcasting, lack of will, no motivation whatsoever, no feeling of purpose, wandering aimlessly around the hospital, anhedonia, alogia, and not accepting the reality that he lives in. Gerald demonstrates being paranoid schizophrenic because he feels like people are out to kill him, to judge him, to put him in jail. He even goes to say that people want to electrocute him because of some of the sins that his has committed, but he doesn’t specify what

All in all, Jacob has schizophrenia because of hallucinations and he has the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. Jacob had visual and auditory hallucinations while in the car with the hitchhiker. He was also being paranoid thinking that the hitchhiker was going to kill them when really, he was just a nice guy. Jacob may have just been looking out for his family but he had no grip on

After studying Jeff’s symptoms, I came to the conclusion that Jeff does not have schizophrenia. The text states, “Abnormalities in one or more of the five domains: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, grossly disorganized or abnormal motor behavior, and negative symptoms (Diagnostic and statistical, 2013, p. 87). Jeff does not demonstrate symptoms of delusion, hallucinations, disorganized thinking nor grossly disorganized. However, Jeff does show negative symptoms of Avolition and Asociality. He has shown little of no interest in participating in work or social activities (Diagnostic and statistical, 2013, p. 88).

Schizophrenia is a severe, disabling and chronic disorder that affects people. Schizophrenia is diagnosed as a psychotic disorder. This is because a person suffering from schizophrenia cannot tell their own thoughts, perceptions, ideas, and imaginations from the reality. There is continuing debate and research as to whether schizophrenia is one condition or a combination of more than one syndrome that have related features. People suffering from schizophrenia may seem perfectly fine until the time they talk actually talk about they are thinking. People with schizophrenia rely on others for help since they cannot care for themselves of hold a job. There is no cure for schizophrenia, but there is treatment that relieves some of the symptoms. People having the disorder will cope with the symptoms all their lives. There have been cases of people suffering from schizophrenia leading meaningful and rewarding lives. There are five types of schizophrenia namely paranoid, disorganized, residual, undifferentiated, and catatonic schizophrenia. This paper will discuss paranoid schizophrenia.

Paranoid Schizophrenia is a disease that affects the brain in such a way that is distorts reality of those with the disease. Paranoid Schizophrenia is the most common type of Schizophrenia. The symptoms as listed by the Mayo Clinic are as follows:

Joellen and Lilah are depicted as each “having their separate conditions to survive-anorexia and schizophrenia” (Findley 40). The origin of their conditions leads back to when they were children. It is obvious that Joellen becomes anorexic in conjunction to their father's verbal abuse, because “If you were skeletal, Joellen had reasoned, he would never find you” (Findley 31). The narrator appears to be looking at anorexia and the fear of physical maturity as a sign of escape from their father’s verbal abuse, and if Joellen remains small he will not be able to hurt her and or find her. Lilah's schizophrenia is harder to identify from where it came from but it is believed to be inherited from her mother. After Sarah Kemp, Lilah’s

Schizophrenia is described as a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation. Although the movie didn’t seem realistic, it was. Having schizophrenia can cause you to hear voices in your head and have terrible hallucinations. Causing you to believe that there is something that it is

“Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that’s affecting millions worldwide. It affects a patient’s thinking, emotions, judgment, behavior, relationships and ability to effectively communicate.” (James Rinehart, 2006). Paranoid Schizophrenia is the most common kind of schizophrenia out there. Those who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, show to be normal with day to day activities, work, or relationships being either friends or a significant other. Although, they suffer from illusions of sound and hear things

Schizophrenia, a disorder that is in the brain that affects a person's actions, thoughts, and how they view things. People with schizophrenia often see things that are not actually happening, hear things that no one said, or even think something about someone that's not true and believe that it's actually real. People with this illness, “May see or hear things that don't exist, speak in strange or confusing ways, believe that others are trying to harm them, or feel like they are being constantly watched” (“Schizophrenia” 1). In the story, “The Hitchhiker” a boy named Jacob is facing many of these symptoms. Jacob seems to have the abnormal behavior that is triggered by schizophrenia, causing him to do acts of violence, and have hallucinations.

According to the World Health Organization, “Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder, characterized by profound disruptions in thinking; affecting language, perception, and the sense of self”. This serious brain disorder affects around 21 million people worldwide and causes people to interpret reality differently. People with schizophrenia tend to have strange or altered thinking and don't feel connected with themselves. They often go through psychotic experiences such as seeing hallucinations and delusions, or hearing voices. Mental health America states that “Some early warning signs of schizophrenia are confused and bizarre thoughts, increased sensitivity to light, sound, smells, or touch, fearfulness or suspicion that isn't warranted,

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by a variety of symptoms and the disorganization of feeling and thought. It is an incurable disease whose causes are unknown, yet whose effects are mind and body crippling. (Young, 1988, p.13-14) This topic was chosen because it is interesting to study a disorder that worldwide, is viewed as a classic example of madness and insanity. Another reason of interest is because unlike many illnesses, schizophrenia doesn't have a noticeable pattern and its difficulty to be diagnosed as a disease makes the collection of statistics difficult. It is important to learn more about schizophrenia because a significant numbr of people are affected everyday

Schizophrenia is the most commonly diagnosed psychotic disorder (Steel, 2012), affecting 1 out of every 100 hundred people on average (Taurier & Wykes, 2004). Symptoms of the disorder include positive symptoms, which are auditory and visual hallucinations, as well as disordered patterns of thought such as delusions (Taurier & Wykes, 2004). Auditory hallucinations are the most common positive symptom, and often come in the form of voices (Steel, 2012). Delusions, which are the most common symptom of schizophrenia, involve a false belief that exists despite evidence being available that suggests otherwise (Steel, 2012).

Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder that affects more than one percent of the population. When schizophrenia is active, symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations, trouble with thinking and concentration, and lack of motivation. However, when these symptoms are treated properly, a large portion of those diagnosed will greatly improve over time.

Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder that affects a person’s thinking, language, emotions, social behavior and perception (Herzog & Varcarolis, 2014). The diagnosis involves identifying a range of signs and symptoms that leads to impaired occupational or social functioning (American Psychiatry Association [APA], 2014).

Schizophrenia has many criteria that is associated with it and it involves many different types of symptoms such as: First, Delusion which involves a disturbance in the content of thought, it occurs in more than 90% of patients at some time during their illness (Cutting,1995). They are numerous types of delusion which associates with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.