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    Schizophrenia is a group of psychoses characterized by confused and disconnected thoughts, emotions, and perceptions.It is a brain disorder that can not be cured,which can last for years or a lifetime.They can not find a cause for this but genetics,environment,and an imbalanced of brain chemicals are some of the reason why they think it exsited in some people.Mostly effects the ages fourteen and up.(Google.com)The disorder was founded by a swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1911.The word…

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    The Beautiful Mind, whose parents are famous psychologists in New York, has a good understanding of the causes of mental illness. In "The Beautiful Mind," he used his psychological knowledge to create the "Nash" image of a typical patient with schizophrenia. Today, this image has become one of the most classic images of mental patients. Of course, for the screen effect, the pathogenesis and pathology of Nash's image in Goldsman’s painting are all artistically processed and have a considerable…

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    Schizophrenia is a mental disease where people cannot differentiate what is real and what is not real. Typical symptoms are sensations that aren’t real. This includes touch, taste, vision, and hearing. Many schizophrenics hear voices and see things that are not there. It is a rare disease, and often times cannot be treated with any medicine. Schizophrenia usually starts in the early twenties, and males are twice as likely to get it. Individuals suffering from that disease do not experience…

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    The movie “A Beautiful Mind” demonstrates the difficult aspects of schizophrenia in a unique way. By displaying an in-depth view of mental illness from the first-person perspective, the film reveals the world through the eyes of a psychiatric patient. This feature allows the viewer to share the sights, sounds, and thoughts of the main character, John Nash, and to further understand the disease. The motion picture also conveys the troubles of his wife in dealing with his outrageous behavior,…

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    John Nash Schizophrenia

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    Ayobami Adedeji John Nash character fits the criteria for being diagnosed as having schizophrenia because of the symptoms he showed in his behavior and personality. These symptoms included the disturbed perception he had in his thoughts, his environment and the people around him. He showed some inappropriate emotion towards his perception like his imaginary friend Charles he felt like Charles betrayed him when he was taking to the psychiatry hospital. His speech was also…

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    This article was written to help the reader understand Schizophrenia. It describes the symptoms such as hallucinations, delusion and unusual behavior. It describes how dramatically this illness can control ones social, educational, and vocational functions. It states that there are a few treatment options such as anti-psychotic medications and counseling but the illness would never completely leave the host. The author says that there is a higher concentration of Schizophrenics in jail than…

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    Schizophrenia is considered to be one of the most serious and complex of all psychological disorders. Schizophrenia is characterized by a loss of contact with reality. Obvious symptoms of Schizophrenia include hallucinations, delusions, disturbed movement, and thought disorders. Although there are obvious symptoms, the different categories of the disorder do not include all of them. There are three different subtypes of schizophrenia; paranoid, disorganized, and catatonic. Individuals with…

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    Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects the way a person acts, thinks, and sees the world. Individuals with schizophrenia have an altered insight of actuality, often a substantial loss of interaction with reality. They may perceive or hear things that do not exist, speak in bizarre or puzzling ways, believe that others are trying to injure them, or feel like they’re being persistently observed. With such an indistinct line between the actual and the imaginary, schizophrenia makes it…

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    suffers from schizophrenia? If you answered this question with, “yes” then you may know a lot about what I am about to tell you. If you answered, “no” than this essay can benefit you by informing you about the cause and treatments for schizophrenia. It will also give you statistical facts and impact that schizophrenia can have one a person. Schizophrenia is a brain disease where a person lacks the ability to think normally and may see illusions. The 1930s were considered the “Schizophrenia…

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    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…

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