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    with schizophrenia usually displays three kinds of symptoms. First, positive symptoms are best explained as excesses in perception. To elaborate, positive symptoms include delusions and hallucinations. Delusions are maintained ideas or beliefs regardless of the fact that evidence has proven them to be false. Specifically, delusions can include the belief that your own thoughts are being controlled or even inserted into your brain by an external force. Other common delusions of schizophrenia are…

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    Over 3.2 million people in the world today suffer from the severe mental disorder called schizophrenia, and sadly, most of them are not being treated for it (Lane). Schizophrenia, by definition, is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves (National Institute of Mental Health). This disorder makes it difficult for the afflicted to distinguish between what is real and what is not. This often makes it very hard for schizophrenic people to function…

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    with schizophrenia than any other illness. There are more Americans with schizophrenia than there are residents of North Dakota and Wyoming combined. One percent of the population (3.2 million Americans) will develop schizophrenia in their lifetime. But about three out of a hundred people will experience a psychotic episode at some point in their life. Because Schizophrenia is so widespread it is important that people can recognize and understand its symptoms. The symptoms of Schizophrenia can…

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    words that people with schizophrenia say. Schizophrenia is a chronic and disabling mental illness. It affects men and women equally. Schizophrenia symptoms start at age 16 to 30.But most of the time after age 45. Symptoms of schizophrenia can be described in two categories: positive symptoms that reflect on distortion of normal functioning and negative symptoms that reflect on reduction of normal functioning. Positive symptoms include: delusion, hallucination, and disorganized speech and…

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    Schizophrenia is one of the most complex and severe mental health disorders. Globally 1 percent of the population is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and roughly 1.2 percent of Americans have the disorder (Nemade & Dombeck, 2009). Schizophrenia is a lifelong progressive brain disorder, which is characterized by periods of psychosis. Currently, schizophrenia can be treated but not cured. No single factor is thought to cause schizophrenia; rather multiple factors contribute to the development of this…

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    Schizophrenia: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recent Research Mohamed Mahmoud College of Staten Island Abstract Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects that person 's behavior, feelings and the way they think and it also effects on how they see the world. The symptoms Schizophrenia includes there view of reality being different from other people. Studies show that schizophrenia may be caused by genes. It affects both men and women equally and adolescences as well. Treatments for these…

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    I 'm going to inform you about the mental illness schizophrenia. Within this essay you will find an overview of the mental illness, how someone with schizophrenia is diagnosed, symptoms and challenges of the disorder and treatment options. “Schizophrenia is considered one of the most disabling of all the mental illnesses. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (Shore,1986), about “1% of the population develop schizophrenia during their lives.” The prevalence among men…

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    Schizophrenia is a broad term for a large group of mental disorders. There are multiple types of schizophrenia. By definition from Encyclopedia & dictionary of medicine, nursing, and allied Health; “Schizophrenia is characterized by mental deterioration from a previous level of functioning and characteristic disturbances of multiple psychological processes, including delusions, loosening of associations, poverty of the content of speech, auditory hallucinations, inappropriate affect, disturbed…

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    Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder with positive and negative symptoms. The positive symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thought, and disorganized or abnormal motor behaviors while the negative symptoms are restricted emotional expression or affect and avolition. Delusions are beliefs that are not true. An example of this could be a belief that someone trying to hurt them. Hallucinations are hearing voices that are not there. Disorganized speech is when an individual…

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    The original concept of schizophrenia can be credited to Emil Kraepelin. In the early nineteen century, Kraepelin observed patients in an insane asylum. He originally named the illness “dementia praecox,” which translated into “dementia of early life” (Warner, 2004). He then continued to classify the patients into three conditions: “Hebephrenia” which is characterized by aimless, disorganized and/or incongruous behaviour; “Catonia,” where the patient is pessimistic, agitated, and sometimes…

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