Schizophrenia Skit Analysis

Schizophrenia Video Questions Initially, John was diagnosed with depression with psychotic features. Diagnosis of this disorder requires a marked decrease in pleasure and/or persistent low mood, as well as at least 2 of significant weight or appetite disturbance, sleep disturbance, psychomotor agitation or retardation, loss of energy or fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, diminished ability to think, concentrate and make decisions or recurrent thoughts of death, dying or suicide. The presence of delusions or hallucinations with the underlying mood disorder yields the diagnosis with psychotic features. Next was schizoaffective disorder then after experiencing mania and persistent paranoia he was officially diagnosed with schizophrenia. His

In this week’s readings chapter twelve is about schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder in which personal, social, and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of strange perceptions, unusual emotions, and motor abnormalities. This disorder is very interesting, but also kind of scary to me. They literally end up in their own world, losing contact with reality. With that, they also experience hallucinations or delusions, which can cause them to do abnormal, possibly dangerous actions. These symptoms must last six months or more before the person can be diagnosed with schizophrenia. It will affect 1 out of 100 people in the world during ones lifetime. This disorder, unlike many others, is just as common among men and women,

My choosing of critiquing this bullet point comes from personal experience. Moreover, my father has schizophrenia and it is very evident that the disease is real. Some days, he will be “normal” and other days he will have an episode or multiple episodes. For example, we can be doing something like bowling and then, all of the sudden, it is like a flip of a switch and he will be making buzzing noises or telling me that the voices won’t stop. It could be as simple as riding in the car and he will begin to speak to his dog that didn’t come along with us. Some days, I cannot even handle being around him, because I know I cannot “fix” his schizophrenia and he cannot help that he was born with the disease.

The video clip was about schizophrenia. It was noted that a few symptoms that people with schizophrenia suffer with is sight, sounds, winds and even scents. In the video the person was experiencing many two voices in their head, also known as hallucination. One voice was saying that he was worthless, out to get him and the other voice was telling him that he was also worthless and that they were a waste of space. As the video shows an example of the pizza man delivering the pizza and the phone ringing, the thoughts in their head was that they were out to get him and etc. I think that one of the treatment that was use is when the lady came into the house and asked why was it so dark and she pulled the blinds and made the sun shine through, then

When watching, “Alice in Wonderland” as a child of course I didn’t know what Schizophrenia was, therefore I didn’t recognize or look for this in the character of Alice. After doing research and re-watching the film, it became clearer to me that Alice does in fact show symptoms of Schizophrenia.

Before this video and class, I didn’t really know anything about schizophrenia, but now I know how terrible it is to have this illness. Like the video mentioned, there is no typical case of schizophrenia or typical symptoms. It varies per person. The person that was in the video mainly heard voices in their mind almost all the time (more than one person). They would say random things like “you’re so stupid” or “ungrateful”. In addition to hearing things, they would also see things that weren’t happening. For example, when the person opened the pizza box and was about to eat it, she heard voices saying “don’t eat it. Poison”. At that moment, the pizza started bubbling like if it were poisoned or if there were something wrong with it. Also, towards

(Santiago feels so shocked that he slowly sits down on the sofa with fear and doubt.)

Gonzalez symptoms are similar in intensity to that of her father's, going from one extreme to the next. She goes for days without speaking to anyone or going to class. Bursting out with fits of rage towards her boyfriend. Having the feeling of being so uncomfortable while attending parties she has the urge to scream. Threatening her sister with cutting the tires on the car if she attempted to take the car as well filing a report with the police stating it was

[Telford is silent for a minute or two while the others look at him, questionably]

“Hi”, she says back in a really quiet voice. Hage is a really socially awkward person she just always feels like she doesn’t belong anywhere. “Um….. can I get off of work early today I feel a little light headed.” Hage asks lightly.

For four days, I had observed that practically the only thing Emma did was pace and whisper to herself inside her room. It seemed like her symptoms got worse over the couple days we waited for the test results but I was just getting anxious about what the results might be.After those four days that seemed to drag on forever, the doctor called us to come back for the results. This time, the doctor had to come downstairs because Emma’s delusions would not allow her come out of her

“Hey, do you know what’s happening?” Mia whispered to the girl next to her. The girl turned and gave her a menacing scowl.

“I'm good, Geri thank you” I answer back politely and take a seat next to her on the couch rather than do my usual after school routine.

“Nice to meet you, Tyler. I’m Clara.” I say, smiling. I turn to the girl. “And you are?”

”DJ stop playing and get me some water please.” She said in her sick voice, she was having one of her days and was not doing so well.