The Frightening Trauma Of Schizophrenia

Dan Hoeweler a schizophrenic poet writes in his poem “Blast off to Insanity”, “They say I am mad/ that I am evil/ and creepy/ that my genes are corrupted/ and my brain is deformed/ that my actions are freaky/ that my behavior is not the norm…” Dementia Praecox: a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of one’s personality. What we know as schizophrenia today has been around for at least two centuries, but not named until the early 1900’s by Kraepelin. In order to fully understand this disease you need to know the types and symptoms, the causes, and the treatment and recovery.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects the brain in many different ways. Schizophrenic people may be delusional, confused, agitated, and have a loss of personality. The word schizophrenia comes from the word skhizein meaning “to split”. Families of schizophrenics may be harmed and affected because anyone suffering from schizophrenia isn’t able to handle a job or care for anyone. Anyone with schizophrenia has to cope with the disorder for the rest of his life because treatment cannot fully demolish the disease. Neurotransmitters in schizophrenics don’t function properly. Till this day, there isn’t any test that can diagnose a person with schizophrenia. However, there are symptoms that can diagnose a person with schizophrenia, those

According to the World Health Organization, “Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder, characterized by profound disruptions in thinking; affecting language, perception, and the sense of self”. This serious brain disorder affects around 21 million people worldwide and causes people to interpret reality differently. People with schizophrenia tend to have strange or altered thinking and don't feel connected with themselves. They often go through psychotic experiences such as seeing hallucinations and delusions, or hearing voices. Mental health America states that “Some early warning signs of schizophrenia are confused and bizarre thoughts, increased sensitivity to light, sound, smells, or touch, fearfulness or suspicion that isn't warranted,

SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophrenia, from the Greek word meaning “split mind”, is a mental disorder that causes complete fragmentation in the processes of the mind. Contrary to common belief, schizophrenia does not refer to a person with a split personality or multiple personalities, but rather to a condition which affects the person’s movement, language, and thinking skills. The question of whether schizophrenia is a disease or collection of socially learned actions is still a question in people’ mind. People who are suffering from schizophrenia think and act in their own the world and put themselves in a way that is totally different from the rest of society. In other words, they have lost in touch with the reality. Most schizophrenics accept

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder of the brain. Schizophrenia also has the most negative stigma attached to it as well. People who view schizophrenia in a negative aspect, tend to think that schizophrenic people are all violent and unpredictable (The Leap Institute, 2013). This is not always accurate because schizophrenic symptoms vary in drastic ways. The common symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations, hearing voices, paranoid thoughts, anosognosia (poor insight), confusion, forgetfullness, unfocused, and isolation/withdraw from others. The more negative symptoms are a decreased motivation,  lack of energy,  and lack of facial expressions (The Leap Institute, 2013).

Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder that affects one’s perception of reality. It may cause hallucinations, delusions, psychotic episodes, disorganized speech,

People who have this disorder can multiple symptoms leading to the diagnosis. Some symptoms are known as “psychotic symptoms” which includes a break with reality, hallucinations, delusions, or evidence of thought disorder. These symptoms are referred to as positive symptoms because they are so readily available. Negative symptoms, which are less readily observed, include withdrawal from society, the inability to show emotion or to feel pleasure or pain, total apathy, and lack of facial expression (Piotrowski, 2015). People schizophrenia also have senses that typically become enhanced or weakened. It can also be hard to concentrate or difficult to focus on things because their selection and filtering process may become impaired. One of the “psychotic symptom” of Schizophrenia

If an individual is left untreated it can be fatal to their health or others around them. According to research it states that schizophrenia left untreated “can result in severe emotional, behavioral and health problems that can be associated with such as suicide, any types of self-injury, anxiety, depression, alcohol and drug abuse, social isolation, aggressive behavior, and many more symptoms” (Mayo Clinic, 2016). Many patients with schizophrenia will experience anger, guilt, sorrow and many more emotions. The psychiatric disorder of schizophrenia involves multiple structural disturbances in the brain. Within the brain, schizophrenia affects the frontal and temporal lobes that show the

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that takes over a patients body and mind. Schizophrenia’s causes and mechanisms remain poorly understood, and the most common treatments do little to restore patients health ( kurtz7 ). Schizophrenia affects the persons brain and ability on to think and functions. People with Schizophrenia have voices inside their heads telling them to do things they don't want to. People with with schizophrenia isn't eligible to control the things they do or say. Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that takes a toll over the patients Physical,Mental,Social life.

Over the years, a disorder known as Schizophrenia has affected many people across the globe. Before advances in the 20th century mental health movement occurred, many thought that the symptoms conveyed by an individual with the disorder were demonically possessed (Walker and Tessner 2008). Today, more and more people are being properly educated about this disorder and understand its effects on individuals, however, there are misguided and false perceptions about it, similar to those prior to the 20th century.

Schizophrenia is a split from reality (Myers, 2013, 657). People with schizophrenia experience all kinds of symptoms. They experience “disturbed perceptions, disorganized thinking and inappropriate emotions” (Myers, 2013, 657). They began having hallucinations. They see things and hear things that aren’t really there or real. They can imagine touch and sensation too. For example, one young woman sees cars’ headlights while driving and believes they are eyes and are trying to harm her (Standen, 2014, 1). These hallucinations can result in a person harming themselves. Sometimes these voices tell them to burn themselves (Myers, 2013, 658). This is one of the reasons that everyone fears schizophrenia because it can be harmful or in some cases even fatal to the people diagnosed with it if it’s not treated and just ignored.

Schizophrenia affects a person’s ability to think, feel, and behave clearly. Someone with schizophrenia may have difficulty distinguishing the actuality of things from the fake. Also, someone with it may have

While some may understand the concept of not having control over a specific disorder, fewer are able to imagine living with a disorder in which an altered perception of reality is created. “Schizophrenia is, in fact, a class of disorders that causes a distortion of reality to occur to its patients and effects the lives of many individuals to this day (Feldman, 2013). While this may fall into the large mix of other mental disorders, it is truly unlike any other because of the creation of an altered reality. Being the complex disorder that schizophrenia is, it is faced with having much controversy, including gender, and creating the necessary treatments used on its patients to help overcome such a mental disorder.

What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word “Schizophrenia” ? Sadly, most people react with “they’re going to hurt me” or “they’re not normal”. The main cause behind schizophrenia is believed to be that there is two neurotransmitters that have a change in their levels. This causes the person to generally have memory problems, makes them easily agitated, might make them very anxious and they also might not have good emotional responses. The symptoms caused by it are different for everyone, which I will explain later. So today I am going to tell you about Schizophrenia and what it does to people. In my paper, I will enlighten you on the causes of it, the symptoms and the people it affects. I will also tell you how the families

Schizophrenia is classified as hysteria in our camaraderie. If you are diagnosed with schizophrenia, the world and our society now-a-days will deem you unfit and delusional. Schizophrenia is a disease that impinges approximately 1.1% of the population. I am going to be scrutinizing the effects of schizophrenia on the brain and personality. Schizophrenia is a diagnosed mental illness which is known for hallucinations (auditory, visual, tactile, sensory, etc.), and most people believe that if you are schizophrenic you are just psychopathic, and not credible. What I hope to discover is what schizophrenia actually does to the brain and personality, and if that assumption of a psychotic mentality is accurate.