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Treatments for Schizophrenia
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Tags: schizophrenia, psychiatric diagnosis, mental disorder, disorganized thinking, delusions, auditory hallucinations, symptoms
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects the way the brain processes outside stimuli. If you are suffering from schizophrenia, you will not see or understand things in the same way that an unaffected person does.
| | The symptoms of schizophrenia are numerous and debilitating. Most schizophrenics will suffer from symptoms throughout their lives, though there can be periods where symptoms are absent. Schizophrenia symptoms are divided into three categories: positive symptoms, disorganized symptoms, and negative symptoms. |
| | Positive Symptoms: Positive symptoms of schizophrenia are those symptoms that involve an excess of normal bodily functions. |
| | For instance, if you are schizophrenic your senses may operate at a heightened and excessive state. Positive signs of schizophrenia include delusions, or beliefs that have no basis in reality. You may feel persecuted (paranoid delusions), you may feel as if the television or radio is talking directly to you (delusions of references), you may hold false beliefs about your physical state (somatic delusions) or you may feel that you have special abilities or powers (delusions of grandeur). |
| | Many schizophrenics also experience hallucinations due to overactive senses. You may see things that aren’t really there, you |
| | may hear people talking to you, and you may even be able to smell, touch, and taste things that other people can’t. These |
| | hallucinations may be quite scary for both the schizophrenic and for family and friends. |
| | Disorganized Symptoms: Disorganized symptoms are those symptoms that exhibit the confusion caused within the brain. Often, a |
| | schizophrenic will have trouble maintaining a conversation, may engage in unpredictable behaviors, or may act bizarrely in certain situations. People with schizophrenia also have difficulty achieving goals or acting with any purpose. For example, schizophrenics may hold unusual poses for extended periods of time. |
| | Negative Symptoms: These include a lack of energy, social withdrawal and lack of motivation. The person affected may say very |
| | little, find social contacts difficult and may have difficulty getting out of bed. Often, carers find negative symptoms frustrating, perceiving a person with schizophrenia as lazy. In fact, these symptoms are part of the illness. |
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