Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that affects the brain. It affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. One with this chronic disorder may seem to have lost touch with reality, unable to tell what is real or fake. Although this disorder is very rare, the symptoms can be very harmful. There are positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. Positive symptoms are psychotic behaviors that aren’t usually seen in normal, healthy people. These symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, movement disorders, etc. Negative symptoms are involved with disruptions to normal behaviors and emotions. These symptoms include reduced speaking, difficulty beginning and maintaining interest in activities, reduced feelings of satisfaction
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Cognitive symptoms are problems dealing with one’s loss of senses and/or memory. Some symptoms include trouble focusing or paying attention, problems with a working memory (the ability to use information immediately after learning it), and poor executive functioning. Executive functioning is when one has the ability to understand information and use it to make decisions. For a mental illness so rare, there are six different types of Schizophrenia. Paranoid Schizophrenia, Disorganized Schizophrenia, Catatonic Schizophrenia, Residual Schizophrenia, Undifferentiated Schizophrenia, and Schizoaffective disorder. Paranoid Schizophrenia is when a person experiences mainly hallucinations or delusional thoughts about conspiracy and persecution. For example, one may think they’re being tracked down for a crime they think they’ve committed, but in reality they haven’t done anything and there are no persecutors. This one is harder to diagnose because the person looks like any …show more content…
Usually if one had Schizophrenia, the person would be put in one of the large institutional asylums. The people that ran it would give the person powerful doses of sedative drugs to restrict their psychotic behavior. This became known as the chemical cosh. Nowadays schizophrenia is treated much better. Even though there is currently no cure for it, there are things to help a person live with it, like prescribed medication, therapy, and self-help
Cognitive symptoms are problems dealing with one’s loss of senses and/or memory. Some symptoms include trouble focusing or paying attention, problems with a working memory (the ability to use information immediately after learning it), and poor executive functioning. Executive functioning is when one has the ability to understand information and use it to make decisions. For a mental illness so rare, there are six different types of Schizophrenia. Paranoid Schizophrenia, Disorganized Schizophrenia, Catatonic Schizophrenia, Residual Schizophrenia, Undifferentiated Schizophrenia, and Schizoaffective disorder. Paranoid Schizophrenia is when a person experiences mainly hallucinations or delusional thoughts about conspiracy and persecution. For example, one may think they’re being tracked down for a crime they think they’ve committed, but in reality they haven’t done anything and there are no persecutors. This one is harder to diagnose because the person looks like any …show more content…
Usually if one had Schizophrenia, the person would be put in one of the large institutional asylums. The people that ran it would give the person powerful doses of sedative drugs to restrict their psychotic behavior. This became known as the chemical cosh. Nowadays schizophrenia is treated much better. Even though there is currently no cure for it, there are things to help a person live with it, like prescribed medication, therapy, and self-help