Schizophrenia is a disabling mental illness, which can affect individual’s thoughts, perceptions, emotions, and behaviors. (100 facts about schizo). The term comes from the greek with schizo meaning “splitting” and phrenia meaning “of the mind”. This disorder makes it hard for a person to differentiate between real and imagined experiences. It weakens their abilities to think logically, express normal emotions, and behave properly in social situations. For many individuals with schizophrenia, these disturbances can cause crippling effects in their daily lives, resulting in, hospitalization, a lifetime of disability, failure of family and social relationships, and difficulty staying employed. Researchers are still unsure what exactly causes
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Some individuals will require custodial care in institutions, while others are employed and can maintain an independent family life. Some people may have only one episode of in their lifetime; while others may have recurring episodes, but still go on to lead relatively normal lives in between. However there are others that may have severe symptoms for their entire lives. Schizophrenia always involves a change in functional ability and personality. The person with schizophrenia will usually show a decline in work or academic activities, relationships with others, personal care, and hygiene. To diagnose and treat schizophrenia more effectively, psychiatrists try to classify it into different types. Classifications are based on experience and on various symptoms described by patients and observed by family members, nurses, and clinicians. Symptoms common to schizophrenia, can in fact, be caused by other diseases or illnesses such as …show more content…
The early symptoms are listed as; poor concentration, moodiness, confusion, and strange ideas, speech frequently incoherent, difficult to understand, and rambling, delusions or false beliefs and lack of emotion, or inappropriate emotion (i.e., silly giddy laughter for no reason).
Paranoid type can be characterized by delusions and/or hallucinations about persecution, or an exaggerated sense of self-importance, or both. Other features include anxiety for no apparent reason, anger, argumentiveness, jealousy, and occasionally, violence. Catatonic type diagnostic criteria includes: Catatonic stupor (marked decrease in reactions) or mutism (no speech), motionless resistance to all instructions or attempts to be physically move. Maintenance of a rigid or bizarre posture, and excited physical activity which seems purposeless, not influenced by environment. Undifferentiated type sometimes major psychotic symptoms cannot be classified into any particular category, or they may match criteria for more than one type of
Some individuals will require custodial care in institutions, while others are employed and can maintain an independent family life. Some people may have only one episode of in their lifetime; while others may have recurring episodes, but still go on to lead relatively normal lives in between. However there are others that may have severe symptoms for their entire lives. Schizophrenia always involves a change in functional ability and personality. The person with schizophrenia will usually show a decline in work or academic activities, relationships with others, personal care, and hygiene. To diagnose and treat schizophrenia more effectively, psychiatrists try to classify it into different types. Classifications are based on experience and on various symptoms described by patients and observed by family members, nurses, and clinicians. Symptoms common to schizophrenia, can in fact, be caused by other diseases or illnesses such as …show more content…
The early symptoms are listed as; poor concentration, moodiness, confusion, and strange ideas, speech frequently incoherent, difficult to understand, and rambling, delusions or false beliefs and lack of emotion, or inappropriate emotion (i.e., silly giddy laughter for no reason).
Paranoid type can be characterized by delusions and/or hallucinations about persecution, or an exaggerated sense of self-importance, or both. Other features include anxiety for no apparent reason, anger, argumentiveness, jealousy, and occasionally, violence. Catatonic type diagnostic criteria includes: Catatonic stupor (marked decrease in reactions) or mutism (no speech), motionless resistance to all instructions or attempts to be physically move. Maintenance of a rigid or bizarre posture, and excited physical activity which seems purposeless, not influenced by environment. Undifferentiated type sometimes major psychotic symptoms cannot be classified into any particular category, or they may match criteria for more than one type of