Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder. People with this disorder tend to hear voices that other people don’t hear. Those with the disorder believe other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or planning on harming them. Their own thoughts terrify them and that’s what make them withdrawn and very agitated (‘Schizophrenia’, 2015).
People with this specific disorder may not make sense they they conversate with others. It is normal for them to sit for hours and not talk or move. Schizophrenic people seem fine until they talk about what they’re thinking about. Family, friends and the community are affected by this disorder too. Majority of the people with the disorder have a hard time keeping a job …show more content…
Many had difficulties and disabilities and they and their relations would struggled. In these case studies done and reviewed by Christopher Frith and Eve Johnstone, they have recited and evaluated the cases where patients are discharged due to normalcy. Here are some cases showing the levels of functioning of patients that were discharged from Shenley Hospital in the early 1970s. They observed 80 patients and among them was a patient who was diagnosed with schizophrenia but was functioning well. This lady had no medical or social support and regarded herself as requiring none. She was a 28-year-old single woman who lived with her foster mother between engagements as a highly successful nightclub dance in Europe and North America. Neither she nor her father reported any problems. She was lively and charming. The foster mother was proud of her exotic and achieving daughter and was also grateful to her for the financial help that she provided,” (Frith & Johnstone, 2003, 18). The next of functioning would be those who have possible problems which basically mean anyone with the disorder that shows minimal signs that is not life threatening. “A patient that was 47 years old lived with his wife and baby daughter and worked as a booking clerk. He and his wife stated that there were difficulties at home because of his excessive irritability and anxiety. At interview, he was strikingly anxious and described a preoccupation with spiritualism. This was unusual, not something that would have been expected in his cultural context, but it could not unequivocally be said to be abnormal,” (Frith & Johnstone, 2003, 18). The last level of functionality in the community is definite problems. “This 58-year-old housewife lives with her 59-year-old husband and her 22-year-old son. She believed that they were poisoning her. She cooked and
People with this specific disorder may not make sense they they conversate with others. It is normal for them to sit for hours and not talk or move. Schizophrenic people seem fine until they talk about what they’re thinking about. Family, friends and the community are affected by this disorder too. Majority of the people with the disorder have a hard time keeping a job …show more content…
Many had difficulties and disabilities and they and their relations would struggled. In these case studies done and reviewed by Christopher Frith and Eve Johnstone, they have recited and evaluated the cases where patients are discharged due to normalcy. Here are some cases showing the levels of functioning of patients that were discharged from Shenley Hospital in the early 1970s. They observed 80 patients and among them was a patient who was diagnosed with schizophrenia but was functioning well. This lady had no medical or social support and regarded herself as requiring none. She was a 28-year-old single woman who lived with her foster mother between engagements as a highly successful nightclub dance in Europe and North America. Neither she nor her father reported any problems. She was lively and charming. The foster mother was proud of her exotic and achieving daughter and was also grateful to her for the financial help that she provided,” (Frith & Johnstone, 2003, 18). The next of functioning would be those who have possible problems which basically mean anyone with the disorder that shows minimal signs that is not life threatening. “A patient that was 47 years old lived with his wife and baby daughter and worked as a booking clerk. He and his wife stated that there were difficulties at home because of his excessive irritability and anxiety. At interview, he was strikingly anxious and described a preoccupation with spiritualism. This was unusual, not something that would have been expected in his cultural context, but it could not unequivocally be said to be abnormal,” (Frith & Johnstone, 2003, 18). The last level of functionality in the community is definite problems. “This 58-year-old housewife lives with her 59-year-old husband and her 22-year-old son. She believed that they were poisoning her. She cooked and