Unfortunately, the medical community is still in doubt over the exact cause of schizophrenia and worse still has no definite cure. The use of cannabis is commonly linked as a trigger to this frightening mental illness. In Anne Deveson’s novel, “Tell Me I’m Here” – based on the true story of a mother struggling to cope with her son’s slow deterioration from schizophrenia – marijuana use is mentioned as a possible cause of the illness. Affecting 1.1% of the world’s population, including 285,000 Australians, schizophrenia is the most severe mental illness in the world today. 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with schizophrenia this year alone and, consequently, 10% of those will commit suicide.
PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA Paranoid Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness in which reality is distorted, also known as psychosis; people with Paranoid Schizophrenia cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. Paranoid Schizophrenia is one of the most common diagnosed forms of Schizophrenia; it only affects 1% of the general population, about 2.2 million people. People diagnosed with schizophrenia make up about half of all patients in psychiatric hospitals and may occupy as many as one quarter of the world's hospital beds. People with schizophrenia have problems remembering, paying attention, and communication .Some researchers believe Paranoid Schizophrenia develops as a young child, but major symptoms do not affect the mind fully until
A large portion of those affected by the disorder spend a lot of time in state and mental facilities, and many live in poverty or become homeless (Javitt, C., Goyle, & T., 2004). There are several different types of schizophrenia: disorganized, paranoid, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual. These types of schizophrenia are differentiable by the severity of the different symptoms. There are two main types of symptoms: positive and negative. Positive symptoms include delusions and hallucinations.
Mental Illness Paper HCA/240 Brian Eigelbach 09/07/12 Mental Illness Paper Schizophrenia is a very serious disease. This disease is a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of the ability to function in everyday life. Some people feel delusional; have hallucinations, and disintegration of personality. The disease was first identified as a discrete mental illness by Dr. Emile Kraepelin in the 1887 and the illness itself is generally believed to have accompanied mankind through its history (Schizophrenia.com, 2010). The name schizophrenia comes from the Greek word “schizo-phrene”.
4/1/2013 The New Asylums Prisons are now housing more than 500,000 mentally ill inmates across the nation. Many of these inmates are classified as severely mental ill and fit the psychiatric classification for major illnesses such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, anti social personality disorder and many more. The question is why are so many clinically ill individuals who should be receiving medical care from medical facility being placed behind bars. Many believe that increase in mentally ill inmates is due to major policy shifts over the past few decades. one of these major shifts spurs from the decision made in 1950 to close many of the mental hospitals throughout the nation.
Mental illness affected many people around the world, most commonly war veterans. Studies have shown that 58% of war veterans are affected by mental illness, whether it is PTSD, depression, etc… For instance, Seymour Glass in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, written by J.D. Salinger, suffers from multiple mental illnesses. We can assume that Seymour suffers from schizophrenia, depression, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). First of all, schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by a breakdown of thought processes, and by a deficit of typical emotional responses.
The author describes experiences with vulnerable populations in her own life. Vulnerable Population Recent periodical discussing a vulnerable population The manuscript by Sanders, Schneiderman, Loken, Lankenau, and Bloom (2009) identifies gang youth as a vulnerable population. Sanders et al. (2009) discusses risk factors of being in a gang, examples of which are deprived socioeconomic backgrounds, living in communities with a long history of drug sales, crime, and gang activity. This gang youth are considered vulnerable as are 60 times more likely to be killed than the rest of the population.
Individual Programmatic Assessment: Disorder Paper Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that affects 2.4 million American adults over the age of 18. Although it affects men and women with equal frequency, schizophrenia most often appears in men in their late teens or early twenties, while it appears in women in their late twenties or early thirties (National Alliance on Mental Illness,2012). It is a chronic, brain disabling illness. Many people diagnosed with schizophrenia have difficulty deciphering fantasy from fiction. They sometimes cannot tell what is real and what is not.
Schizophrenia refers to a psychiatric disorder which affects the coherence of one’s personality due to emotional instability and detachment from reality. It is mainly associated with anxiety disorders and depression. The symptoms of schizophrenia are outlined hereafter: auditory hallucinations, disorganized patterns of speech (characterized by preponderance of word salad) and thought processes, paranoid delusions, lethargy, social withdrawal (or isolation), impaired social cognition, impairment of executive functioning and catatonia. Usually, the onset of these symptoms manifests itself in young adulthood (20-30 years of age). The prodromal phase of schizophrenia is characterized by dysphoria, petulance, transient psychotic symptoms, alogia, anhedonia, gaucheness and social withdrawal.
Schizophrenia “Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder in which personal, social, and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of strange perceptions, unusual emotions and motor abnormalities. “ (Comer, 426) Schizophrenia comes from the Latin language “ split minds,” individuals with this mental illness tend to lose connections to the real world and they isolate in their own thoughts that pervade their minds. Psychosis is the loss of contact with reality and it always appears in form of schizophrenia. The causes could be genetic or environmental. The symptoms for this mental illness are in positive symptoms that include excessive thoughts and disturbances of perception, hallucinations and delusions are also part of signs.