Paranoid Schizophrenic Self Analysis

Divided Minds is a powerful, heart wrenching memoir written by two twin sisters, Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro about their journey through schizophrenia. Early on in their lives, Pamela is seen as the dominant and more outgoing twin. Pamela was creative, social, and intellectually bright. Carolyn often felt like she lived in the shadow of Pamela and could not quite measure up. When the girls were in the sixth grade, the first symptoms of Pamela’s future disorder appeared when the news of President Kennedy’s assassination broke and Pamela thought that she was somehow involved and to blame for his death. She begins to hear voices that would haunt her for years and her condition worsens throughout her adolescence. Pamela and Carolyn both attended Brown University and while Carolyn flourished in school, Pamela became moody and depressed. During their freshman year, Pamela’s episodes of irrationality become more extreme and she became very withdrawn. She has her first major breakdown and overdosed on sleeping pills. This was the beginning of the numerous hospitalizations and sessions with psychiatrists that would soon become a huge part of her life.

In the article, Accelerated Brain Aging in Schizophrenia: A Longitudinal Pattern Recognition Study1 published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the authors decided to investigate the characteristic progressive brain loss that occurs in schizophrenia patients. In particular, they are testing the idea that this progressive brain loss is the result of the brain aging more rapidly in individuals affected by schizophrenia than in unaffected individuals. Schizophrenia is a very rare disease that manifest in several different ways and in different severities. Schizophrenia is often associated with symptoms such as paranoia, hallucinations, delusions, and disorganization in behavior and thinking. The cause of schizophrenia is not known

In today’s world, schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder. It affects approximately one percent of the world’s population. This mental disorder mainly impacts one’s brain and tends to distort their perception of reality. Thus, individuals with schizophrenia are considered to have a split personality. They may have abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This contributes to their anomalous nature, which range from minor violent acts to severe suicidal thoughts. More importantly, schizophrenia can occur to anyone, regardless of culture, age or gender. Research shows that the risks of developing schizophrenia are increasing across the nation. Therefore, with technology progressing, it is vital to understand the impacts, prevalence, and

I believe that the client, Beth, is diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenic, which is the increasing suspiciousness and severe difficulties in interpersonal relationships. A symptom that Beth has shown is her caution towards her parents. She was cautious in telling her parents anything, because she felt disconnected from them. But the time she was leaving for college again, she felt annoyed, insulted and alienated from them and questioned whether they were really her parents or if their bodies had been inhabited. Another symptom that Beth had shown was her distrust with her new roommate, despite just meeting her for the first time. Beth quickly decided that she could not trust her roommate, believing that she could be a spy sent by her parents. Another symptom is Beth’s withdrawal from her friends. Her former friends now describe her as “quiet, aloof, uncommunicative, distant, and hard to figure out”. Another symptom is her drop in performance in school. Beth had a significant decline in

The DMS-IV has played an important role in aiding patients to gain control and be aware of their condition in everyday life. Cooke (2014, p.24), states that the naming of schizophrenia offers a protective framework, allowing individuals to open up about their difficulties and to access health services. Because of its existence, people welcome formal examinations because it reassures that their situation is not abnormal/inexplicable, and that there is a body of knowledge and experience to explain their situation (Major & O’brien 2005, p.411). For example, diagnoses help reduce inappropriate feelings of blame or shame, where at times individuals may incorrectly accept schizophrenia as part of their biology, hence, only right for them to be outcasted.

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. It is a condition that requires lifelong treatment for people with schizophrenia. It is a serious condition when a person loses touch with reality with friends and family. Things for them that are imagining starts to become more real to them. They have problems concentrating, having memory, and lack of emotion. Doctors do not completely know the causes of this disorder, researchers are still on the job trying to find out. Many people with this disorder live in a private inner world with their own imagination. It is know to be called a “split mind” which means multiple personality split but the mind suffered a split from reality. Paranoid schizophrenia is the most common type. It is when a person loses touch of reality, their ability to function and think normally daily is altered more than other

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that has been widely studied. Trudy Meehan and Malcolm MacLachlan, in the article “Self Construction in schizophrenia: A discourse analysis”, seek to shed light on the topic of self-construction in those with schizophrenia. The main issue they are addressing is whether or not using the discursive model of self-construction will provide a better and more accurate way of analyzing how people diagnosed with schizophrenia construct self as opposed to using only the dialogical model of self.

1 out of 100 people is schizophrenic. I am lucky enough to be that 1 as many of you already knew.

One of the hardest things to do is to figure out who you are as a person. For a long time I thought I knew who I was. My parents taught me to be selfless and kind despite what others do to me. I lived a life sheltered from the harsh truth that sometimes being kind all the time leaves the door open for someone to walk all over you. The people that showed me this side of the world were none other than the girls I called my best friends. After that, I learned a little something about myself and something that I could teach other people. I learned about being confident in myself and that standing up for yourself makes you a stronger person,

It is perhaps one of the most misunderstood psychological disorder even among psychologist. This is because it is pretty rare and new causes are being discovered continuously. Having the meaning of “split mind” creates an antithesis from what most people belief. Schizophrenia is not associated with split in personality or multiple personality. Instead the term refers to the splitting from reality that people with schizophrenia experience. Those patients diagnosed with schizophrenia have difficulties differentiating between real and unreal experiences, thinking logically, having normal emotional responses to others and behaving normally in social situations. A schizophrenic may also have difficulties in talking and remembering.

A man, who is a paranoid schizophrenic, goes to the hospital with his mother who is complaining of abdominal pain because of a car accident. When doctors examine her they find that something inside of her is moving. The man, who is also the mother’s son, is telling the doctors that aliens have impregnated his mother, and that they are after him. As the doctors continue to examine his mother, her son starts staring at the clock. His mother wants the doctors to cover the clock because the number five bothers him a lot. Then, her son forgets about the clock and starts worrying about cameras, so his mother tries to distract him by asking him to make a list of what they need from the grocery store. She does this to distract him from the voices that are after him. Both the son and the mother need to be checked out since they were both involved in the automobile accident so the main doctor on the case orders a very hostile resident to take him up to get x-rayed. This is a bad idea because the son, whom is a paranoid schizophrenic, may interpret the doctors’ hostility as him being out to get him. As the nice doctor is bandaging his wrist, he notices that she doesn’t have a nametag. This makes him thing that she is

Shana is a twenty-three year old African American unemployed female who lives with her mother. She is approximately 5’11 inches and thin. Shana shared that she lost approximately 30 pounds rapidly last year, after the death of her grandmother. My therapeutic encounter with her began because she was referred to partial hospitalization program for treatment after a trip to a local emergency room with suicidal thoughts and feelings of depression. Shana prematurely left treatment after 2 months in the program.

Personality Disorders Donna danced into the party and immediately became the center of attention. With sweeping gestures of her arms and dramatic displays of emotion, she boasted about her career as an actress in a local theater group. During a private conversation, a friend inquired about the rumors that she was having some difficulties in her marriage. In an outburst of anger, she denied any problems and claimed that her marriage was “as wonderful and charming as ever.” Shortly thereafter, while drinking her second martini, she fainted and had to be taken home.

you won't give up because everything is priceless to just poof away. “What I am grateful for is

At one point in our lives or another, we have all been to school, we have all been into the lunchroom, and we have all seen those few children that sit by themselves and don’t say anything, don’t look around, and don’t seem even the least bit interested. The greater parts of society looks at these odd children and then brushes them off and say to themselves “Oh they are just weird, I wouldn’t want to be their friend either.” But have you ever stopped and thought maybe its something deeper? Maybe these kids have a mental disorder that causes them to be that way. Maybe, just maybe, its not even their own choice but its forced upon them by abusive and neglectful parents that obliterate their children’s trust so far that they cant even