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Submitted by korak30 on March 4, 2007
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Schizophrenia
Introduction
Like any other mental disorder, schizophrenia is a mental disorder with specific symptoms. Often, schizophrenics are misunderstood by society as being violent and dangerous, partly because of how media portrays them. This, of course, does not give society the right to discriminate all schizophrenics as violent. Hence, all schizophrenics are not violent however, some are violent due to various reasons such as people with criminal record before schizophrenia, substance abusers and paranoid schizophrenics.
What is schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder. In Greek, schizo means splitting' and phrenia means of the mind.' It is a mental condition that is difficult for an individual to distinguish between reality and imagination. Schizophrenia has no bound in choosing its victims and it is not preventable. Life of a schizophrenic is terrifying because for them, reality and fantasy constantly merge.
What is schizophrenia not?
Many people baffle split mind with personality. Schizophrenia is not split or multiple personality. It is not caused by parents or how someone is brought up. It is not untreatable and definitely not a guarantee that a person will be violent or be in a hospital for life.
Symptoms
The symptoms of schizophrenia fulfil clearly specified criteria. They are divided into two major categories: positive and negative. Sometimes there are also cognitive symptoms
1. Positive
Positive symptoms are usually acute or initial phase of schizophrenia. In this stage the changes in a person are easily noticeable. Patients usually hallucinate. They may see, hear, feel, taste and smell something that no one else does. For example, they may hear voices that may order them to do things or talk to each other (usually unpleasant things about the patient)....
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