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Schizophrenia is a mental illness that causes terrible afflictions to people afflicted with it. ... The movie, “A Beautiful Mind”, was based on a mathematician who suffered from Schizophrenia. ... Schizophrenia is one of the most mysterious diseases because there is so little understanding about its nature. There are people who think schizophrenia is fundamentally within the control of the individual and his environment. Then there are people who think schizophrenia is the consequence of a chemical imbalance of the brain. Thus, the most important question about schizophrenia is: what causes it?
On the one hand, there are researchers and sufferers who think Schizophrenia is the result of personal choice, like alcoholism or depression. ... This is largely because schizophrenia is a disease of the mind, making it appear subjective. ... Thus, what really makes people suffer from schizophrenia is a bad environment. ... Thus, if the environment changes, the schizophrenia is supposed to disappear.
Then there are researchers who think that no matter how much psychiatric help a person gets, and no matter how much his environment changes, the schizophrenia will not disappear because the problem is in the brain itself. In other words, there is a chemical imbalance that predisposes the patient to suffer schizophrenia, especially under particular conditions. ... Ultimately, it is not yet know precisely what chemicals cause schizophrenia, or which elements of the environment cause it. ... So, if a patient is suffering from schizophrenia, they advocate that the patient quit his job, get away from his family, move to a different city, etc. ... Those who think schizophrenia is a chemical disease think that if these things do happen, the schizophrenic will encounter the exact same problems. ...
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder. ...
The National Institute of mental Health notes that schizophrenia is known through the confusing changes in behavior of patients. The sudden onset of severe schizophrenia is called “acute” schizophrenia, and psychosis is a common condition of schizophrenia, entailing mental impairment, hallucinations, disturbances of sensory perceptions, or delusions. There is also social isolation and withdrawal, unusual speech, thinking or behavior, which are milder forms of schizophrenia and preclude the more severe psychosis.
The onset of schizophrenia is generally difficult to detect because a person can withdraw socially and exhibit unusual speech or behavior patterns without having schizophrenia. ... That is where the difficulty in assessing schizophrenia comes in. ... It is almost impossible to tell conclusively whether someone has schizophrenia until they start exhibiting the severe symptoms, especially acute paranoia.
Approximate Word count = 1941
Approximate Pages = 7.8
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