Introduction Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that effects a person physically, mentally and emotionally. It began to interest me about 6 years ago. I believe my mother suffered for years and went untreated. When I began college, I had a short briefing on the disorder, it sparked an interest in what could have so largely affected her life. 11.4 Million people in the United State have some type of mental illness per ABC news. 7-8 people per thousand suffer from schizophrenia at some point in their life. (Kalat, 2014 pg 519). Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that presents itself in the form of hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, distortion of experiences, social disorders and well as lack of hygiene and memory loss among
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This term was first used in 1910 by a Swiss psychologist, Paul Eugen Bleuler. As far back as the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece, physicians have had an idea of schizophrenia, they wrote about it as “madness” some saw it as a curse, some as a gift from heaven. It was treated with blood-letting, special diets and laxatives. As time went on in the middle ages monasteries began converting themselves to treatment centers to help with those who suffered from mental illness or “madness” now thought by some to be a result of religious impurities. Treatments in the monastery centers still included blood-letting and laxatives but now came along side prayer and confession. It wasn’t until after 1800 that thought changed and physicians started to treat patients with decency and understanding. A facility called “York Retreat” was opened and called for the “humane care of the …show more content…
Some of the common symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations such as hearing voices, delusions of persecution and grandeur and disordered speech and thought. Paranoid schizophrenia is a subcatagory of the larger disease and is characterized by patients that present with auditory hallucinations (hearing voices) and delusions. This is the most common type of schizophrenia. Disorganized schizophrenia the patient is disorganized in most aspects of life. It’s hard for patients with this disorder to preform activities of daily living, personal hygiene is neglected, and their speech and thought is very disorganized are difficult to understand. With the subtype Catatonic schizophrenia, patients have problems with mobility, they either have excessive mobility and act almost hyperactive or they become immobile for long periods of time, this is referred to as a “catatonic stupor”. Residual Schizophrenia is when a patient has been symptom free or in remission for over a year and the symptoms suddenly reappear. Undifferentiated schizophrenia is diagnosed when a patient presents with multiple symptoms from all categories and it hard to pin point them into one
This term was first used in 1910 by a Swiss psychologist, Paul Eugen Bleuler. As far back as the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece, physicians have had an idea of schizophrenia, they wrote about it as “madness” some saw it as a curse, some as a gift from heaven. It was treated with blood-letting, special diets and laxatives. As time went on in the middle ages monasteries began converting themselves to treatment centers to help with those who suffered from mental illness or “madness” now thought by some to be a result of religious impurities. Treatments in the monastery centers still included blood-letting and laxatives but now came along side prayer and confession. It wasn’t until after 1800 that thought changed and physicians started to treat patients with decency and understanding. A facility called “York Retreat” was opened and called for the “humane care of the …show more content…
Some of the common symptoms of schizophrenia are hallucinations such as hearing voices, delusions of persecution and grandeur and disordered speech and thought. Paranoid schizophrenia is a subcatagory of the larger disease and is characterized by patients that present with auditory hallucinations (hearing voices) and delusions. This is the most common type of schizophrenia. Disorganized schizophrenia the patient is disorganized in most aspects of life. It’s hard for patients with this disorder to preform activities of daily living, personal hygiene is neglected, and their speech and thought is very disorganized are difficult to understand. With the subtype Catatonic schizophrenia, patients have problems with mobility, they either have excessive mobility and act almost hyperactive or they become immobile for long periods of time, this is referred to as a “catatonic stupor”. Residual Schizophrenia is when a patient has been symptom free or in remission for over a year and the symptoms suddenly reappear. Undifferentiated schizophrenia is diagnosed when a patient presents with multiple symptoms from all categories and it hard to pin point them into one