The article “Schizophrenia” by Nancy Piotrowski and Leslie Tischauser highlights great information and sound background on the severe mental disorder. The article covers five key questions: What is schizophrenia? What are the causes? What are the symptoms? What is the duration? Is there a treatment for schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a mental disorder and genetic disease that affects how a person feels, behaves and think. The history of the disorder was also prevalent in the article. The word “schizophrenia” is less than 100 years. In 1908, Swiss psychiatrist, Eugen Bleuler first named the disorder. However, Emil Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist was the first to identify the mental illness in 1887. The article also mentions the translation
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Not only does the article define schizophrenia but is informs me on the causes, symptoms, duration, and treatments. Schizophrenia is “a disorder characterized by disordered thinking and odd perceptions that cause dysfunction in major activities, sometimes including withdrawal from the world, delusions, and hallucinations” (Piotrowski & Tischauser, 2015). The cause of the disease is genetic reasons, some symptoms include depression, hallucinations and paranoia. Schizophrenia is a long-lasting disease that comes with time. Although there is no cure, treatment involves psychotherapy and drug …show more content…
In other words, they died because they are not able to make medical decisions on the proper treatment. In addition, many schizophrenics are unable to face the fact that they have a severe mental disorder that is not curable. However, schizophrenia is treatable. Health care providers have no idea how to tackle the major problem and treat a patient in denial. They are somewhat stuck between a rock and hard place. Health care providers may be unassertive and hesitant what to do and may even avoid decision making until the patient’s health deteriorates or they eventually dying. The questioned title speaks for itself, people should not lose their life over a common mental disease that can be
Not only does the article define schizophrenia but is informs me on the causes, symptoms, duration, and treatments. Schizophrenia is “a disorder characterized by disordered thinking and odd perceptions that cause dysfunction in major activities, sometimes including withdrawal from the world, delusions, and hallucinations” (Piotrowski & Tischauser, 2015). The cause of the disease is genetic reasons, some symptoms include depression, hallucinations and paranoia. Schizophrenia is a long-lasting disease that comes with time. Although there is no cure, treatment involves psychotherapy and drug …show more content…
In other words, they died because they are not able to make medical decisions on the proper treatment. In addition, many schizophrenics are unable to face the fact that they have a severe mental disorder that is not curable. However, schizophrenia is treatable. Health care providers have no idea how to tackle the major problem and treat a patient in denial. They are somewhat stuck between a rock and hard place. Health care providers may be unassertive and hesitant what to do and may even avoid decision making until the patient’s health deteriorates or they eventually dying. The questioned title speaks for itself, people should not lose their life over a common mental disease that can be