Outcome 1 Know the Main Forms of Mental Ill Health

Mood disorders: disturbance in the persons mood is hypothesized, this means a person’s mood can change instantly

Schizophrenia affects around 45% of all psychiatric patients around the world. The symptoms which are used to describe schizophrenia are often misdiagnosed as major depression, or bipolar disorder; although schizophrenia involves both depression and bipolar disorders, it is classified as cognitive dysfunction which affects both the host psychologically, and neurologically. Indications of this disorder include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, emotional flattening, paranoia, strange

Imagine waking up one day, not being able to tell what is real and what it not. What would your initial reaction be? Would you be affected the rest of the day? Psychological disorders can affect more than just thinking; these disorders affect mood and behavior as well. Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder that causes delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and inappropriate emotions. This disorder affects about one percent of the worldwide population (SAMHSA, 2015). Early onset symptoms usually affect less than 1 in 10,000 children but have a significant increase at the age of 13 (Remschmidt, 2005, pg. 121) The more prominent symptoms surface around the age of 16 to 18 (SAMHSA, 2015). It is rare for symptoms to develop after the age of 40. Schizophrenia is a leading example of psychosis; psychosis refers to the loss of contact with reality, irrational ideas, and distorted perception. Research has shown that it is not a singular disorder rather a group of different brain disorders; this also explains why schizophrenia is often referred to as a brain disease. The symptoms

Schizophrenia is a brain disease. Its defining feture is psychosis, or being out of touch with reality marked with delusions and hallucinations. Delusions are fixed and false beliefs that aren't responsive to evidence and hallucination are false sensory experiences.

Schizophrenia is severe mental disorder that causes a distortion of reality that is commonly known to have abnormalities of brain the brain structure coupled with unpredictable and strange emotions, behavior, and thinking. It accounts for the largest percentage of people hospitalized with a mental disorder. (#1) There are five main types of schizophrenia that have been observed. The first is the undifferentiated type which a patient lacks emotional depth and external interests and relationships begin to deteriorate, they begin to show stereotypical or simple behavior. Second is the disorganized form where someone may lose ability to perform everyday tasks, display peculiar behavior, and give inappropriate responses. Next is the paranoid type typically showing up later in life and consists mainly of hallucinations, illogical thought process and delusions. The catatonic form of schizophrenia is characterized by bizarre motor movements. The patient can become immobilized for periods of time for no apparent reason or he/she can have purposeless, excessive movements. Lastly is the residual type typically less severe because psychotic symptoms have vanished or become very limited. (#3) Now keep in mind every person with schizophrenia has different symptoms and they are constantly changing so classification varies person to person.

Schizophrenia is a long-term mental disorder which causes a large amount of distress and disabilities (Cardwell, Clark, L & Meldrum, 2004). Schizophrenia is an example of the type of mental illness called the psychosis disorders. Psychosis refers to some specific abnormalities of cognition and often displays abnormal perceptions of reality (Cardwell et al, 2004). The causes of schizophrenia are uncertain and have not been clearly identified (Cardwell et al, 2004). Research has suggested an interaction between genetic, psychological, physical and environmental factors may cause a person to develop schizophrenia (Sim, Chua, Chan, Mahendran, & Chong, 2006).

Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality, it usually characterized with hallucinations and delusions. A Hallucination is a disorder in the way things are sensed. One may hear voices, see things, or smell things that are not present. Auditory hallucinations are most common. A delusion is a disorder in the way one thinks; the most common delusions are those of grandeur and persecution, these are when one thinks that they very important or that someone is out to get them when in reality there is no good reason to think this. When patients experience psychosis, they may be confused, depressed, disorganized, delusional, hallucinate, and be paranoid. Some who suffer from psychosis have difficulty with everyday things in life such as having a

A psychotic condition, or a state of psychosis, is where an individual begins to lose touch with reality by experiencing hallucinations and delusions, and believes them to be real when in fact they are not (Freudenreich, Weiss, & Goff, 2008; APA, 2013; Darton, 2013; NHS, 2014; MedlinePlus, 2015). Modern conventional psychiatry (Kraepelin, 1987; Shorter, 1992, 1997; Alexander & Selesnick, 1966) uses a predominately biomedical approach to the diagnoses of mental health conditions, which is particularly so for patients of psychotic conditions (Hunter & MacAlpine, 1963; Mayer-Gross, Slater, & Roth, 1975; Guze, 1989; Shorter, 1997). The most recently revised diagnostic criteria for the psychiatric diagnoses can be found in the DSM-V (APA,

The ability to express joy, anger, fear, frustration, sadness or other emotional highs and lows are normal parts of human behavior. However it is unnatural to experience any of these emotional outbursts over a prolonged period of time as it can have a serve impact on our mental and physical wellbeing. This psychological disorder more commonly known as mood disorders is characterized by the elevation or lowering of a person's mood. Mood disorders influence what an individual thinks, how they feel about themselves, and the way they perceive their surroundings often in ways that can impair an individual ability to live a healthy life. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIH) states that approximately 20.9 million American adults, or about

Mental health disorders has been very strenuous and complex to understand and diagnose, many diagnosis criteria such as DSM have been used to determine the disorders and medication (Szabo, 2011). I am asserting that “Yes, Psychopathology diagnostic classification systems (such as the DSM or ICD) are of little use to health professionals and patients because behaviours are often misidentified and medicalised”. To assert this, this paper is going to explore four main topics that contribute to the little use of psychopathology diagnostic classification system, these include downsides for using DSM diagnostic criteria, Medicalisation and misdiagnose, consequences of medicalisation to the health professionals and community and Psychological trauma in patients. Szabo, (2011) states that Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been utilised to diagnose and categorize mental illness in psychiatry. However this diagnosis is focused on definitions of operational rather than the cause (Warelow & Holmes, 2011). This paper will first explore the downside of using DSM criteria to diagnose mental health.

Schizophrenia is characterized by an unadaptive pattern of general though and emotions, including delusions, auditory hallucinations, paranoia, disorganized thinking and disorganized speech. These symptoms cause a significant impairment in personal and social life. There are a wide range of symptoms that can be present in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, for

Schizophrenia is classified as a psychotic disorder- the term psychotic simply means that a patient diagnosed with the disorder will exhibit a psychosis in which he or she seems detached from reality. The Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) released in May of 2013 has changed the way that schizophrenia will be diagnosed (Kupfer & Regier, n.d.). In the previous version, diagnosis required that symptoms be present for six months, and that there were at least one month of active symptoms. The symptoms that characterize schizophrenia are, “delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and other symptoms that cause social or occupational dysfunction” (“Schizophrenia,” 2013).

Mood disorders- these are where there are changes in a persons feelings. This will cause them feel high moments and low moments in their life. According to the DSM/ICD, it states unbalance in a person mood is thought to be underlying feature of the changes.

Hallucinations could include hearing voices, both complimentary and threatening, that are perceived to be inside or outside the person's body. They could also include seeing something that is not there or experiencing unusual sensations on the body. Delusions could be described as strange, committed beliefs held only by the person diagnosed, who refuses to change the belief despite strong evidence to the contrary. Examples could include believing traffic signals are instructions from aliens, or the belief that they are being watched, spied upon, or plotted against. Thought disorder is a symptom involving the way that a person with schizophrenia processes and organizes their thoughts. Usually their thoughts "race" along so rapidly that the person can not "catch them." Because the person's thinking is so disorganized, their speech can be incoherent, and their emotional responses can be inappropriate. Sometimes the person's words and mood do not coordinate with one another. The symptom of altered sense of self describes the blurring of feelings about who he or she is. Sometimes the feelings involve sensations of being bodiless, or like a non-existent person. The individual sometimes can not decipher where his body stops and the rest of the world begins, as if the body and the person are separated.

Disturbance of perception that feeling that the world appears to be different,colors look brighter and noise seem to be louder and in some extreme cases patient might lose the power of self-recognition because everything appears different for example the see their hands appear larger than normal,sometimes forget their address where