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Webster’s Dictionary defines schizophrenia as: “a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought, and conduct.” Schizophrenia is a very complex disease and there are so many facets to it. Some of these facets are the symptoms, the different types of schizophrenia, the conditions that are confused with it, theories about its origin and where it comes from and the treatment of the disease. ... I just know”
There are two different criteria for officially diagnosing Schizophrenia. The first one was invented by Schneider and is appropriately named Schneider’s First Rank Symptoms For Schizophrenia. ... This criteria states that in order to be diagnosed as Schizophrenia the following must be present:
1. ... Prominent auditory hallucinations consisting of voices keeping up a running commentary on a person’s behavior, or two or more voices conversing with each other
Many of the symptoms that are associated with Schizophrenia are also associated with other mental disorders. There is also not one single symptom that can positively identify schizophrenia, and there is no lab test that can determine if a person has schizophrenia. ... And because you’re not asleep, you can’t wake up…”
Altered Senses
Sufferers of schizophrenia often have trouble making sense of everyday signs, sounds, and feelings that we often take for granted. ...
Hallucinations, Delusions, and Confused Thinking
Hallucination is the symptom that is most commonly associated with schizophrenia, a hallucination is when you hear voices or see things that don’t exist. ... Lastly people with schizophrenia may experience confused, interrupted thinking and may talk without making sense. ...
“I told her the long story about the hospital; how in the beginning it was difficult to get distance from people suffering illnesses that stole their minds for a while or a lifetime, how poignant and and painful it was to see them struggle inside schizophrenia… You wonder how it is that they can still work so hard at keeping their spirit, hold to hopes, try to salvage dignity from ruins of lives. ... ”
Subtypes of Schizophrenia
There are several different subtypes of schizophrenia; they are the paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual. ... People who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia are found to be the one’s that are most able to live a normal life. ...
Disorganized
People that suffer from this type of schizophrenia often find it hard to carry out daily tasks such as dressing, bathing, and brushing the teeth. ... Often in this type of schizophrenia, the patient has a very hard time communicating with others, and is practically in comprehensible.
Catatonic
Disturbances in movement are most often associated with catatonic schizophrenia; sometimes it becomes so serious that all voluntary movement ceases. ...
Undifferentiated
Undifferentiated schizophrenia is given as a diagnosis when the person experiences symptoms of schizophrenia but are not prominent enough to be classified as another type of schizophrenia. ...
People who do not understand what schizophrenia is or any other mental disorder for that matter often try to explain it with what they do know.
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