What Is Schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that is the base of several psychological symptoms. There are many people out there who suffer from this disorder and have no idea on how to cure it. Some people tend to spend their whole life with this disorder; whilst others get it treated as soon as they see first sign or symptom of it. Schizophrenia is not a disorder that cannot be treated; with the right kind of treatment, the disorder can be controlled and the individual suffering from it can be cured. The paper will discuss the schizophrenia disorder in detail, causes, risk, signs & symptoms, and treatments of it.

According to NAMI (), schizophrenia is a long term mental illness that interferes with a person’s ability to think clearly, make decisions, and relate to others, impairing a person from functioning to their full potential when left untreated. For these persons affected, it is many times difficult to distinguish what is real from what is not. “Unfortunately, no single simple course of treatment exists.” Research has linked schizophrenia to a multitude of possible causes” (NAMI).

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Mental health has been studied for centuries now. There have been fast differences major evolutional discoveries and changes since mental health has been researched and studied. Many theorists have been pioneers in their respective studies and laid the blueprint for what it is today. One of the interesting diagnosis’s during the early development is how Schizophrenia is a diagnosis that has been misunderstood over the centuries. The criteria that would determine one such a label, has shifted drastically. Although it has shifted and the information we have today is much more polished due to the amount of research and studies that have taken place, it’s important to learn and know the history behind how schizophrenia came to be and how it was coined to become such a noticeable and intricate part of diagnosis’s in psychology. Leading the way in the foundation and discovery of

Schizophrenia is a class of mental disorders often symptomatic of a broad spectrum of behaviours which ultimately fail to determine what is real. Some of the symptoms that make up the spectrum of schizophrenia include hallucinations, invalid or illogical beliefs or thought processes, and abnormal social expression. It is worth noting that schizophrenia does not mean multiple personality disorder but rather a separating of mental function and is also rarely diagnosed separately but along with other conditions, such as depression, mania, and anxiety disorders. As to the causes of schizophrenia, both genetic [1] and environmental factors [2] have been found to influence the progress of schizophrenia, but there is still much which is unknown

Scientist believe that there is a correlation between the percentage of Schizophrenic diagnosis and the environment of the individual. It is necessary to define environment as the everything other than “genes” and “genetic makeup”. Factors of the environment include exposure to various types of bacteria/viruses, malnutrition at birth, problems at birth, and other psychosocial factors. Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is not multiple or split personalities, but on the other hand, it is a mental and emotional imbalance. Schizophrenic people are not always violent as many popular tv shows enjoy depicting them as. And schizophrenia is not a result of traumatic childhood experiences or poor parenting. It is a disease that requires lifelong treatments as it is incurable at the present time.

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by a variety of symptoms and the disorganization of feeling and thought. It is an incurable disease whose causes are unknown, yet whose effects are mind and body crippling. (Young, 1988, p.13-14) This topic was chosen because it is interesting to study a disorder that worldwide, is viewed as a classic example of madness and insanity. Another reason of interest is because unlike many illnesses, schizophrenia doesn't have a noticeable pattern and its difficulty to be diagnosed as a disease makes the collection of statistics difficult. It is important to learn more about schizophrenia because a significant numbr of people are affected everyday

“The term schizophrenia means ‘split mind’” (Williams & Hopper, 2015, p. 1368). It is characterized by the inability to distinguish what is real versus what is only real to the person suffering from this illness. It is a serious, complex, chronic and potentially disabling mental condition – lifelong treatment strategies are necessary.

Deemed as the disorder with no preference, schizophrenia has followed mankind since the times of Ancient Egypt (2000, Okasha) under the broad term of “madness” yet it was not officially recognized until 1887 when Dr. Emile Kraepelin issued it a distinct mental disorder (2012, Burton). Widely thought to be a split personality disorder, it has in fact nothing to do with multiple personality conditions but instead, schizophrenia is an extreme thought disorder that causes disconnected thoughts, emotions, and perspectives. The disease has no borders as cases are scattered around the world which we can induce means that the cause is a mental imbalancement rather than one triggered by a sole outside source.

Schizophrenia is a disorder that affects the mental condition of an individual at any stage of life. It has an impact on a person 's thinking, actions and behavior (Marder, Chopra & Vandan, 2014). People with schizophrenia seem like they have lost touch with real life. While it is not as common as other mental illnesses, schizophrenia can be severe and lethal. It is also a chronic disorder with lifelong effects. In social situations, schizophrenic people usually experience problems with expression of emotions that are normal. Multiple personality is not a characteristic of schizophrenia. People with split personalities are violent and they are a danger to others, but not all schizophrenic people display

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Schizophrenia (in Greek split mind) is marked by delusions, hallucinations, illusions, distorted perceptions of reality, normal verses abnormal, and a “split” between thought and emotion. Schizophrenia troubles one percent of the world’s population, making it the most common psychosis. Approximately two million Americans suffer from this illness in one year and roughly half of all the people admitted to mental hospitals are schizophrenic. Many symptoms appear to be related to problems with selective attention. People also find it difficult to focus on one item of information at a time, have no contact with others, and a breakdown of personal habits.

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Schizophrenia is one of the most common and most severe psychological disorders. Schizophrenic symptoms are complex and are often mixed up with other psychological disorder often changing throughout the progression of the disorder. Research has not yet confirmed what exactly causes this psychological disorder. Schizophrenia involves distortions of thought, perception and emotion such as unusual behaviour and social withdrawal. (Carlson et al., 2007).Symptoms normally occurs in late teens into the early thirties. The word schizophrenia literally means ‘split mind’ but does not signify a split personality. Often humans say they experience and feel schizophrenic about a situation when they really mean they have mixed emotions about it. For example, a person might want to build a house on an island and live of the land. Then at other times, they