Schizophrenic Paradigm

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 During their freshman year, Pamela’s episodes of irrationality become more extreme and she became very withdrawn.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.

Schizophrenia, an uncontrollable psychotic illness, is a disorder characterized by the disturbance of thinking. Those afflicted with this thought disorder have a keen focus on information that is irrelevant or peripheral to the situation and topic currently at hand. A schizophrenic person has difficulties making sense of the world and differentiating their thoughts from reality; schizophrenia is rooted in the definition “shattered or fragmented personality”. The main character in Benny and Joon, Juniper Pearl, “Joon”, is a young schizophrenic woman exhibits all three of the essential features of schizophrenia: incoherent thoughts, linguistic problems and a distortion from reality, and an irregular display of emotion and/or

Isolation is defined as being far away from other places, buildings, or people; remote. Isolation can come in many different forms: physical, spiritual, emotional and mental. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dimmesdale seems to deal with all four. When Dimmesdale sinned with Hester and the sin was as known, Dimmesdale had to take a backseat and watch her face the punishment for him which, caused him to have a guilty conscience. The guilty conscience of Dimmesdale brings him isolation to himself, to his family, to his town, and to God.

Michael and Susan say when their daughter, Jani, was born, they “immediately noticed that she wasn’t like other children.” Jani was diagnosed with early-onset schizophrenia when she was 6 years old. “Schizophrenia is a disabling psychological disorder that can include hallucinations, delusions and disorganized speech. People with schizophrenia experience psychosis, which is a loss of contact with reality that is severe and chronic.” (Licht and Hull ?) As Jani grew older, she would see and hear things that weren’t there. She spends most of her time in an imaginary world she calls Calalini, where over 100 people and animals live. However, Jani’s parents say her imaginary friends sometimes tell her to do violent things, like jump off buildings and hit, scratch and bite other people around her. While medication has lessened Jani’s violent and explosive tendencies, Michael and Susan say they worry for her future.

Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder that affects the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional parts of the brain. The symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and cationic behavior, and negative symptoms. The DSM-5 states that symptoms delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech must be present for at least one month in order for one to be diagnosed with schizophrenia. Also, the DSM-5 mentions that the symptoms have to be ongoing for at least six months to be schizophrenic. Hallucinations include hearing voices, smelling distinct odors, and seeing unrealistic figures. The disorganized speech or behavior of the affected person includes those saying random words and moving excessively with an agitation which

It is imperative to seek treatment for children or adolescents who present with the onset of serious mental illness. Early-onset of illness is a high prediction of poor outcomes for the patient. Severe mental illness diagnoses include schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. The schizophrenia spectrum includes schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder and xxxx. The diagnoses fall into xxx categories; xxx, xxxx and xxx. Early onset of schizophrenia (EOS) before the age of 13, is very rare at 0.04 % of population in the United States. EOS is before the age of 18, 0.5% of U.S. population. Children and adolescents make up xxx of the psychiatric patient in the United States. The DSM-5

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Schizophrenia continues to create new challenges today and continue to be a complicated mental illness. Contrary to the misconception that Schizophrenia is a rare condition, it is not rare at all. ; each person has a risk of developing it within their lifetime. It is most common to psychoses and half of the inpatients in mental facilities are Schizophrenics. Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that can happen to anyone occurring in any culture, affecting men and women equally and all areas of functioning, including emotions, perception and behavior.

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Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. does it have an effect on long term memory? Most people with schizophrenia are diagnosed in their early 20s, however the biggest symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions usually start between ages 16 and 30. (National Institute of Mental Health)

Mathew Winston claims humorous narrators are irrational and full of multiple selves by stating “Traditional comedy assumes that the self, or, less abstractly, each individual finds fulfillment as part of a larger whole, in the company of complementary and like-minded individuals” (394). Readers and characters are consciously aware of the irrationality. Furthermore, in “Schizophrenic Narrative” by Lee R. Edwards, he views schizophrenia in narratives as purely linguistic and a “locus of both a challenge and fascination” (28). In a suitable manner, readers are incorporating this maddening disorder due to the stylistic mode the authors are using, “by virtue of their inability to define, express, or experience themselves as self-sufficient monads” (Edwards 28). Especially, when reading a story told by an unreliable first-person narrator who is humorous. This idea of schizophrenia is not only in the narrators, but also the readers. Reading is the act of reading words on pages, seeing images brought by writers, and coming up with more words and images in one’s own head. Seeing it purely in that context, it is irrational, but of course, reading too, is a way people can live, understand, and think through another life—real or not.

The two diagnosis I considered after my first session with Caleb were Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophreniform Disorder. Caleb clearly displayed deficits in both social communication and social interaction during our session. Caleb was so socially withdrawn, that his mother, Nina, was the person I communicated with throughout the entirety of our session. Caleb occasionally mumbled responses to some of the questions; his answers ranged from “yes”, “no” to “I don’t know”, although he mumbled thank you to one of my compliments, Caleb definitely displayed deficits in social-emotional reciprocity. Caleb also exhibited deficits in nonverbal communication, avoiding eye contact throughout our entire session, he even avoided eye contact with his

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