The Most Feared Disorders Is Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects the way a person acts, thinks, and sees the world. People with schizophrenia have a completely different perception of reality, such as a significant loss of contact with it for example, compared to people who do not suffer from this mental disease. They tend to panic a lot, feel like someone is trying to harm them or their loved ones, fear that someone is watching every move they make. Although they hallucinate a lot and/or are delusional, most people with schizophrenia are not violent and are not a danger to others. (Helpguide.org, 2015)

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder often characterized by abnormal social behaviour and failure to recognize what is real. Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking, auditory hallucinations, reduced social engagement and emotional expression, and inactivity. A person with schizophrenia often hears voices, experiences delusions and hallucinations and may believe thoughts, feelings and actions are controlled or shared by someone else.

The symptoms exhibited by those who have schizophrenia are hallucinations, delusions, lack of emotion, racing thoughts, incoherent thoughts, odd behaviors, and psychotic manifestations. Many who experience this disorder may hear voices or

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,

Sometimes I feel thoughts are being put in my head and that people are reading my thoughts” (“What is Schizophrenia?”). When hearing all these voices and seeing these visions, sometimes these victims tend to become overwhelmed and stressed. Their nightmare turns into a reality overtime when these sufferers decide to finally open their eyes back up from this horrifying illness taking over their brain. This disease is extremely real; everything happening to these patients damages them greatly. Because schizophrenic people see visions and hear voices that make them feel in-prisoned in their own mind, it affects how they live their every day life.

“Anxiety is not rude. Schizophrenia is not fake. Mental disorders are not wrong” Mental illnesses are not something to be ashamed of. In today’s society, illnesses can be seen as weird or abnormal, but in reality, our bias truly stems that illusion. Schizophrenia, anxiety and other mental illnesses are underrated as illnesses and overrated as attention-seeking. People can be predisposed to mental illnesses if a blood relative has a illness, neglection as a child, excessive drug and alcohol use, and much more.

Psychiatrist D. Fuller Torrey, M.D., states Schizophrenia is the “modern-day equivalent of leprosy” (qtd: in Tartakovsky, 2014). There are harsh stereotypes surrounding those affected such as a higher level of danger, universal symptoms, predetermined traits, a need for hospitalization, and even, put simply by Demian Rose, M.D., Ph. D., a belief Schizophrenics are either psychotics or not. (Tartakovsky, 2014). These stigmas lead to extremely detrimental effects such as, more homeless sufferers, less job opportunities, a lower quality of life, lower self esteem, higher stress levels, and more symptoms (Corrigan, 1998). Like most problems, these stigmas could be corrected with a fairly basic understanding of Schizophrenia and how it affects its sufferers.

Schizophrenia on their other hand is a severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. Individuals with this disorder may seem like they have lost touch with reality.

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 psychological disorder. It is not in the same classification as other disorders because, it is not able to be classified as a an anxiety or mood disorder. Schizophrenia has many side effects, most times, negative. Many times schizophrenics have hallucinations. Schizophrenia patients often experience non-existent stimuli that creates images that are not there, most of the time voices.

About 70 million people in the world and 3.1 million people in the United States have the mental illness, schizophrenia (MHA), according to author Gerald Bouthner (2015) who wrote an article on the challenges of metal illnesses. Despite the fact that millions of people suffer from schizophrenia and it was identified over 125 years ago as a separate and distinct mental illness. It is perhaps the most misunderstood and stigmatized mental illness of all.

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by a variety of symptoms and the disorganization of feeling and thought. It is an incurable disease whose causes are unknown, yet whose effects are mind and body crippling. (Young, 1988, p.13-14) This topic was chosen because it is interesting to study a disorder that worldwide, is viewed as a classic example of madness and insanity. Another reason of interest is because unlike many illnesses, schizophrenia doesn't have a noticeable pattern and its difficulty to be diagnosed as a disease makes the collection of statistics difficult. It is important to learn more about schizophrenia because a significant numbr of people are affected everyday

Many people do not have a full understanding of what schizophrenia is and its affect on the individual diagnosed and its affect on society. So the question at hand is what exactly is schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.” (NIH) Although schizophrenia is not as common as other mental disorders, it can be very disabling. Approximately 7 to 8 individuals out of 1000 will get schizophrenia in their lifetime. People with this disorder have many symptoms and issues. Those with schizophrenia may hear voices or see things that are not actually there. They may also believe that other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them.

Schizophrenia is a psychological condition that causes delusions or hallucinations making it extremely difficult for those who have the disorder to discern between reality and the imaginations (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). These fictitious experiences are often frightening situations where the victim cannot properly respond if the danger were reality because he/she believes everything is reality, even events that are produced by the imagination. “Emil Kraepelin, who coined the term schizophrenia (literally “split mind”) in the 1890s, viewed the disorder as a split from reality, not a split attitude or split personality as is sometimes mistakenly assumed” (Feist and Rosenburg, 2012, p. 607). Schizophrenia is widely recognized by society as the disorder where the victim hears voices that really are just fantasies of their imagination. This is often a major symptom, but it can include other symptoms as well. People with schizophrenia have a distorted view of society and their interactions with it including the idea that people are controlling them and that someone is plotting evil against them (NIMH, 2007). Speech is often disorganized an incoherent because of this disorder, which reflects the cognitive state of thinking, also being disjointed.

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that has a severe effect on the daily functioning of people that are diagnosed with it. People living with schizophrenia can easily lose their sense of reality as they may hear voices that others do not hear or witness stimuli that others may not see (National Institute of Mental Health, n.d.). These may be referred to as hallucinations as they are the one of the common symptoms of the disease that affects 1% of the population of the United States of America (National Institutes of Mental Health, n.d.). Another common symptom of schizophrenia are delusions, in which a person with schizophrenia can hold a belief that is not true or logical, such as believing that they are a famous celebrity, such as Channing Tatum (National Institutes of Mental Health, n.d.). It does not always mean that people living with schizophrenia cannot perform single or dual tasks related to