Mental Disorders: Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia, also sometimes called split personality disorder, is a chronic, severe, debilitating mental illness that affects about 1% of the population, corresponding to more than 2 million people in the United States alone. Other statistics about schizophrenia include that it affects men about one and a half times more commonly than women. It is one of the psychotic mental disorders and is characterized by symptoms of thought, behavior, and social problems. The thought problems associated with schizophrenia are described as psychosis, in that the person's thinking is completely out of touch with reality at times (Medicinenet.com, 2011). Schizophrenia is psychological disorders which wills indeed effects a person brain by conducting the…show more content…
Their world will become a distortion of sounds, images, and thoughts difficult to comprehend and causes strange behavior or even shocking behaviors known as episodes (Webmd.com, 2009). Every individual that deals with this mental disorder is not alike. Some people who deal with this disease will encounter different experiences of the disorder. Some people will experience one episode during their lifetimes when you would have others that will have to deals with these episodes throughout their lifetime. There are some people that deals with this mental disorder can indeed go on with a normal lifestyle if they are getting proper treatment as well as the medication that are required of them to take to keep this mental disability under…show more content…
The positive symptoms are the symptoms that are which a person is delusions and they will believe things that are not true and began believing that they are something that they are not. They tend to hear or see things that are not there, this is another positive form of schizophrenia which is called hallucinations. The disorganized symptoms will includes not being able to communicate in a good way they will began doing odd things that are not necessary to being doing at the time such as writing for no reason, always forgetting important things that have always been important to them and moving around very slowly. The last category that this disorder are under is the negative or less obvious symptoms they also will began losing their appetite, neglecting their personal hygiene duties, having trouble functioning with activities they use to get pleasure out of doing, not having energy majority of the time, and they will also have terrible mood swings they will have people no longer wanting to be around them (Webmed.com,
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