Essay On My Experience Of Paranoid Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is undoubtedly one of the utmost frightening severe brain disorders of all time. Nevertheless, there is an abundance of informative books and short stories to help individuals who suffer from this terrifying disorder. For example, while searching through the bowels of the internet, there was a narrative published by a female named Margaret Taylor titled My Experience of Paranoid Schizophrenia. In this short story she states how she would be at work and would hear abusive voices talking about her in racist language. These voices were so loud and obnoxious that she even yelled back at them. Only problem was after she turned around to see who it was, there was no one around her. There are many other interesting cases of schizophrenia and if any of these problems mentioned do exist to anyone do not be afraid …show more content…
Various amounts of doctors have come up with many theories; however none of them have been scientifically proven. One of these theories suggests that a combination of genetics and the environment contribute to the development of this disorder. Schizophrenia frequently runs in the family and only attracts one percent of the overall population. However, it does occur in ten percent of the population who has a first degree relative with this chronic disorder. For the generation of the population that might have this disorder, it occurs in people of all age brackets. In men schizophrenia may occur around the early to middle 20’s and for females late 20’s. Also, it is extremely rare for people over the age of 45 to get schizophrenia Another theory suggests that schizophrenia is due to having a problem with the naturally occurring brain chemicals, including neurotransmitters called dopamine and glutamine. Researchers have tested this theory by performing an MRI and came to the conclusion that in small ways a brain with schizophrenia looks different from those with a healthy