Mental Disorders: Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder that affects more than one percent of the population. When schizophrenia is active, symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations, trouble with thinking and concentration, and lack of motivation. However, when these symptoms are treated properly, a large portion of those diagnosed will greatly improve over time.

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. Schizophrenia is not as common as other mental illnesses in fact only about 1% of all people worldwide are diagnosed with it. The symptoms of this disorder can be quiet disabling. Signs of schizophrenia usually appear in late adolescence or early adulthood. It is relatively rare for older adults and children to start developing signs of schizophrenia, but it does happen. The symptoms of schizophrenia can be categorized in three groups: positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. Positive symptoms are psychotic behaviors not typically seen in healthy people. People with positive symptoms tend to lose touch with some aspects of reality. These symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, and movement disorders. The most common symptoms are hallucinations and delusions. Hallucinations are sensory experiences that occur in the absence of a stimulus and they can occur in any of the five senses (visual, hearing, smell, taste and touch). The most common type of hallucination found in people with

Symptoms of schizophrenia are often categorized into positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms typically include:

Schizophrenia is a chronic neurological disorder that causes people to interpret reality abnormally. “Accurately described as a psychosis - a type of illness that causes severe mental disturbances that disrupt normal thoughts, speech, and behavior” (Brain &Behavior Research Foundation).According to the Brain and Behavior Foundation Schizophrenia is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental disorders. This disorder also affects men and women equally and usually affects them between 16-30 years old, after 45 the chance of getting schizophrenia is very unlikely. It rarely occurs in children but with ongoing research that can soon change.

Schizophrenia is a long lasting/life long mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, behaves, process information, and store information. People with schizophrenia think very unorthodoxly, and are not “there” completely. Schizophrenia is a very rare hereditary disorder. The symptoms can disable someone physically and mentally. Schizophrenia can be inherited from family members, or be susceptible to it later on. Suffers of the disease have an excess number of neurotransmitters and overproduction of dopamine. The excess neurotransmitters muddles the brain and causes sudden uncontrolled body movement, and inhibits thought processes. Dopamine also acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain, but when overproduced, it can interfere with other processes. The irregular circuitry also leads the brain being unable to properly communicate and control the body. Symptoms of schizophrenia usually start between ages 16 and 30. In rare cases, children have schizophrenia too.

Positive symptoms are when symptoms of schizophrenia are bizarre additions to an individual’s behavior, such as delusions, disorganized thinking and speech, hallucinations, and inappropriate affect. Delusions, or incorrect thoughts, occur in various ways but the most popular is persecution, when the individual feels like everyone is out to get them, following delusions of grandeur, or feeling like they are of higher power such as being the Queen of England, when they clearly are not. Another symptom is disorganized thinking and speech that can include loose associations in which the conversation is all over the place, neologisms which is making up words, or the individual with schizophrenia will talk in clang or repeated rhymes. Third, is hallucinations

The symptoms of schizophrenia are wide and varied, typically falling into three main categories, positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive symptoms. Each of these symptom types affect the patient in different ways, and in different degrees of severity. The symptoms may range from mildly irritating, to severe and debilitating. Positive symptoms are behaviors not normally seen in healthy people. Negative symptoms are behaviors that are usually exhibited in healthy people but are lacking in the patient. Cognitive symptoms are subtle symptoms that affect the patient’s thought processes and cognitive functioning.

As previously stated in this paper Schizophrenia is a series of symptoms that are led by the patient having delusions or hallucinations. The patient often has disorganized speech or catatonic behavior. Schizophrenia symptoms can be considered a very broad spectrum of ideas that are categorized to be schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Arguably some believe that these symptoms can be considered random. More than one person can be described as having Schizophrenia but may not always have the same symptoms. This makes it difficult to understand how schizophrenia is diagnosed to begin with.

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. Many people with schizophrenia may often feel like that have lost touch with reality and the world around them. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, schizophrenia affects 1.1% of the American population over 18 years old. Although schizophrenia is not as common as other mental disorders, the symptoms

Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder that disrupts the normal balance of thinking and emotions; thus, sufferers decode reality abnormally. Schizophrenia can result in an amalgamation of delusions, hallucinations (visual or auditory), disordered thinking, chaotic speech, and behavior (Mayo Clinic, 2014). Schizophrenia “has the highest disability rating (0.53) of all mental illnesses among adults” (Eaton, 2012, p. 19), and as a chronic disorder requires lifetime treatment. The latter serves as the most compelling evidence that helps to explain the current happenings in Ms. Jones case.

Schizophrenia is a disorder that involves a variety of symptoms that can be classified into three overall different areas that affect a person such as cognitive, behavioral and emotional dysfunctions. Persons who are affected by Schizophrenia experience difficulties with impaired occupational or social functioning. These effects of these difficulties can be seen in nearly all areas of one’s life. Individuals who are affected by schizophrenia could display behaviors that do not match the situations; they could display inappropriate affect, may be dealing with a dysphoric mood or are disinterested in food and eating. People who suffer from schizophrenia may also exhibit deficits in memory, language or other executive functions. These deficits may affect individuals by having difficulty with being able to process their thoughts or feelings as quickly as others around them. A diagnosis of schizophrenia makes it difficult for individuals to interact with other as they have impaired abilities to understand inferred meanings in conversations or difficulty interpreting the meanings of the body language displayed by others. These difficulties complicate the already difficult task of interacting with others that those diagnosed with schizophrenia already have.

Schizophrenia is a mental disease where patients can hear, see, and smell, things that are not actually there. These are referred to as hallucinations and delusions. Hallucinations are things that the patient sees and hears that are not present. Delusions are the belief or impression that what the individual is seeing is real. Scientists know that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder and it runs in families. This disease occurs in families and in the general population. In families it occurs in about 10 percent and in others it occurs in 1 percent. The exact cause of schizophrenia is unknown, but many scientists think that this disorder involves many different genes, not just one. They also thing this disease is caused from factors from genes and environment, such as being exposed to harmful things before birth. This disease is equally common in men and women, but men normally experience symptoms earlier than women. Symptoms of this disease are separated into three classifications, which are positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive symptoms

What is Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is defined as a psychotic disorder that strikes about one percent of the world population. It is a disease that makes it difficult for a person to think logically, to tell the difference between real and unreal experiences like hallucinations, delusions, hearing voices, and paranoia. It surfaces more frequently during a person’s late teens to early twenties, and it has the potential to destroy the lives of the people who are unfortunate enough to be its victim.

Schizophrenia is a major psychiatric disorder, or cluster of disorders, characterized by psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions which ultimately alter a person’s perception, thoughts, and behavior. The primary part of the body affected by schizophrenia is the brain. It is a severe and chronic brain disorder that makes it difficult for the victim to think clearly, have normal responses to emotions, and act normal in a social setting.

One may have heard of schizophrenia, but they might not understand what it is. Schizophrenia is “one of the most serious [psychological disorders that] involves severely distorted beliefs, perceptions, and thought processes” (Hockenbury 564). People who suffer from schizophrenia do not have a good grip on reality. Unfortunately, “they become engulfed in an entirely different inner world, one that is often characterized by mental chaos, disorientation, and frustration” (Hockenbury 564). People who have schizophrenia can develop positive or negative symptoms. Positive symptoms are defined as: “extra feelings or behaviors that are usually not present”(cite). Examples of positive symptoms include: “believing that what other people are saying is not true (delusions), hearing, seeing, tasting, feeling, or smelling things that others do not experience (hallucinations), or disorganized speech and behavior.” (I moved this so that it flowed a little better instead of jumping between positive and negative). On the other hand, negative symptoms are defined as: “lack of behaviors or feelings that usually are present” (cite). Negative symptoms include “losing interest in everyday activities, feeling out of touch with other people, family, or friends, lack of feeling or emotion, having little emotion or inappropriate feelings in certain situations, and having less ability to experience pleasure” (What 1).