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Recognizing Schizophrenia by Tracey Wilson
Schizophrenia is a disease that usually occurs in young people for no reason at all. The cause of the illness is unknown. It affects the person's thinking, feeling, movement and behavior. The brain regulates all these things. The brain functioning is disturbed in several ways. These three ways are through Positive Symptoms, Negative Symptoms and Cognitive Symptoms.
Positive Symptoms
A person's thought processes with this illness can be disrupted so that one does not directly relate their previous thoughts. Also there are delusions that are beliefs that are untrue. There are four types of delusions: paranoid delusions-in that a person believes that people are trying to harm him even though it isn't true. A second delusion is a delusion of reference that occurs when things in the environment seem to be directly related to the person even though they aren't. A third delusion is a somatic delusion in which there are erroneous beliefs about the body. The last delusion is a delusion of grandeur, which occurs when a person believes that he/she is very special or have special powers or abilities.
The next positive symptom is hallucinations. There are five of these. The first type is auditory in that the person hears things that other people do not hear. The second type is visual in that a person sees things that other people do not see. The third type is olfactory in which the person smells things that other people don't smell. Fourth and next is tactile in which the person feels like something is touching his skin even though there is nothing touching it. Fifth and last is gustatory in which the person tastes something that is really not there.
The person's behavior is also affected. There movement is also affected. They may move faster or slower.
Negative Symptoms
These symptoms include: inability to enjoy activity as much as before, low energy, a blank blunted facial expression or having less lively facial movements, or physical movement, low motivation, difficulty initiating activities and an inability to make friends, or keep friends, or not wanting to have any friends around.
Cognitive Symptoms
These symptoms affect concentration or memory. They are as follows: disorganized thinking, slow thinking, difficulty understanding others, poor concentration, poor memory, difficulty expressing thoughts and difficulty integrating thoughts, feelings and behavior.
If a person has some or all of these symptoms they should contact their doctor. He/she can explain them to the person affected.
Psychosis is a general term used to describe psychotic symptoms. Schizophrenia is a type of psychosis. The symptoms of psychosis include: confusion, inability to think clearly, difficulty putting thoughts together, rapid thoughts that are hard to follow, inability to pay attention or to concentrate, confused speech, disorganized behavior, auditory, olfactory, visual and tactile hallucinations.
There are four types of Schizophrenia. They are as follows: paranoid type -- frequent hallucinations with delusions, disorganized type-disorganized behavior and flat affect, catatonic type-inappropriate behavior, immobility and speech problems, undifferentiated type-meets criteria for general category. But doesn't fall into any of the other types.
Taken in part from: "Diagnosis-Schizophrenia" by Rachel Miller and Susan E. Mason
About the Author
Tracey Criswell Wilson is an author on http://www.Writing.Com/ Many of Tracey's writings which include non-fiction, poetry, prose and many fiction writings can be found on this site, which is a site for Creative Writing.
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