Schizophrenia And Its Effects On Society

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.

Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that is the base of several psychological symptoms. There are many people out there who suffer from this disorder and have no idea on how to cure it. Some people tend to spend their whole life with this disorder; whilst others get it treated as soon as they see first sign or symptom of it. Schizophrenia is not a disorder that cannot be treated; with the right kind of treatment, the disorder can be controlled and the individual suffering from it can be cured. The paper will discuss the schizophrenia disorder in detail, causes, risk, signs & symptoms, and treatments of it.

Records of the disease date back to old Pharaonic Egypt, but it was not until 1887 that it was fully discovered by Dr. Emile Kraepelin. The disease was not dubbed schizophrenia until 1911 by Eugen Bleuler. One place most people have heard of schizophrenia is when the subject of witches or evil possessions come up. The most notable appearance of evil possessions found in history that was most likely schizophrenia would be the Salem Witch Trials in the late 1600’s. Modern day scientist believe that the women accused may have actually been suffering from schizophrenia due to signs they exhibited according the records taken during the trials. Until almost recently people with diseases such as schizophrenia were classified as being abnormal and many were subdued to horrible tests that are today considered inhuman and sometimes seen as forms of torture. “Early theories

This paper defines schizophrenia from a biological and psychological perspective and also provides treatment to help combat symptoms of schizophrenia. This paper has three important contributions. First, by defining and expanding on schizophrenia from a biological perspective, I can identify the nature related predispositions. After expanding from a biological approach, secondly, I will analyze schizophrenia from a psychological aspect by determining if there is any environment or nurturing externals that can result to schizophrenia. Lastly, I will provide treatment details and also reveal early signs to schizophrenia. This paper is important because schizophrenia is an epic mental disease and it is crucially important to bring awareness to the public of how we can limit the illness. It is unclear whether schizophrenia have only a biological background or psychological background, but what was discovered is that both contribute to schizophrenia. Positive and negative treatment can be combatted undergoing pharmaceutical and psychotherapy,

In 1898, a German psychiatrist, Emil Kraepelin, described the confusion with the side effects and named this disorder in the Latin expression, dementia praecox. Later in 1908, Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist, initially named the expression "Schizophrenia". Schizophrenia comes from the mix of the Greek words for split (skhizein)

Schizophrenia is a life-long disorder that affects about one percent of the population (Mueser & McGurk, 2004). The cause of this mental illness is still unclear. Studies have suggested that Schizophrenia does not arise from one factor but from a combination of genetic, environmental, and social factors (Liddle, 1987). People diagnosed with Schizophrenia struggle to deal with a multitude of symptoms that make it difficult to function (Mueser & McGurk, 2004). Antipsychotic medications are a popular treatment of the symptoms of Schizophrenia (Mueser & McGurk, 2004). Research is constantly being done to develop these medications to enhance the quality of life of those diagnosed with Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a mental illness which affects the lives of the individual, their families and society (Murray & Lopez, 1996). The term Schizophrenia is often utilized to describe a major psychotic disorder that alters the way an individual think, feels or acts (NCCMH, 2010). It is often worth noting that each person who develops this mental illness possess their own unique combinations of symptoms and experiences. Schizophrenia has been the subject of an ongoing controversy regarding its etiology and treatment. Biological, environmental and social factors play a pivotal role in understanding Schizophrenia and determining the outcomes.

Haslam gave a very descriptive detail of what he thought was symptoms of the disease, schizophrenia in a book he wrote called, Observations on Madness and Melancholy (Barlow & Durand, 2015). But, as years went by, many other physicians studied and did research on schizophrenia as well. For instance, Philippe Pinel used certain terms to describe symptoms of schizophrenia. It was toward the end of the nineteenth century when the word schizophrenia would come to terms. The psychiatrist that made this possible was Emil Kraepelin. He used all of what he learned from the people before him and everything he studied to create the word “schizophrenia.” In the twentieth century, the government of United States created programs for people with disabilities after World War. The development of mental health centers for the community occurred between the 1950s and 1960s (Sadock, Sadock, & Ruiz, 2009). Psychiatrists continued to study and research

It is unfortunate that society primarily view people with schizophrenia as violent. I think the stigma of violence associated with schizophrenia among other reasons still occurs as a lasting ideology of institutionalization, because of the nature of how schizophrenia is mentioned in the news, and the fact that it is a difficult disease to treat. First, one of the most common myth of the disease is that people suffering from it are violent. This was a driving force during institutionalization and as a result people with the disease were kept from away from society. Although as a society we have moved to deinstitutionalization that idea is still prevalent and has not changed from its origination. Secondly, when schizophrenia is mentioned in the

In this paper I am going to discuss some myths about schizophrenia and some misunderstandings that people automatically assume when they first hear this topic. First off, Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder that distorts the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality, and relates to others. People with schizophrenia often have problems functioning in society, at work, at school, and in relationships. Schizophrenia can leave its sufferer frightened and withdrawn. It is a life-long disease that cannot be cured but usually can be controlled with proper treatment. The most common misconception that people have is that they are dangerous and shouldn 't be allowed to walk around amongst everyone else even with the proper treatment. I am going to prove otherwise.

Schizophrenia is a turbulent mental illness that many people throughout America are suffering from. The word schizophrenia comes from th One percent of America’s population is diagnosed with Schizophrenia each year. This mental disorder is more common in late teenagers and young adults ranging from the ages of 20 to 30. It is proven that this illness occurs in more young men than women. People who suffer from schizophrenia usually cannot have normal lives due to the disabling symptoms. This illness is prevalent all over the world and researchers are still working towards a cure. This paper will discuss Schizophrenia and its symptoms, causes, treatments.

Psychosis is a condition in which there is distortion of reality and disturbances of thought. The prevalence of schizophrenia in the general population is approximately 1 %, with 70% of affected individuals experiencing their first manifestations in late adolescence to young adulthood. Manifestations of the condition cause impairments in the workplace, in social relationships, and in self-care (page203). No specific cause of schizophrenia has been found. The origin of the neurodevelopmental condition is likely to be multifactorial, most probably stemming from interactions among genetic and environmental factors. There has been some evidence of structural changes and chemical disturbances in the brain of individuals with schizophrenia (203). Within this disorder, there three subtypes to this disorder and both negative and positive manifestations as well. The three subtypes of schizophrenia are paranoid, disorganized, cationic, undifferentiated and

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).

Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder in which people understand reality unusually. Psychotic symptoms distort an individual’s thinking. These include

Schizophrenia is proven to be one of the most common mental illnesses in today’s society. Approximately one per-cent of the world population suffers from this horrendous disorder. An estimated two and one-half million people suffer