SCHIZOPHRENIA

Schizophrenia: Concept and Diagnosis



Schizophrenia: Concept and Diagnosis

Introduction

Schizophrenia is possibly the most complicated, grave and devastating of all mental illnesses. This can manifests itself in distinct modes and forms. People with schizophrenia may display a broad blend of psychotic symptoms, disorganized demeanour, and shortfalls in motivation and emotional expression. People with schizophrenia may furthermore display a kind of cognitive disorders. All these symptoms hinder with every day functioning of the communal and exceptional rights. For Some people with schizophrenia, it takes a long period of time to recover. The patients show misplaced feelings requiring for psychiatric hospitalization.

What Is Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a severe psychosis that occurs in young adults, usually chronic, clinically characterized by signs of dissociation, emotional discordance and activity, usually causing a loss of contact with the outside world and sometimes an autistic withdrawal (Hirsch, 165). Schizophrenia or "Alsezovrnia," is a mental illness that causes nerve disorder and escalates to serious consequences up to the situation where patient commits suicide. Treatment of this disease is possible and available around the globe. In 1911, the term schizophrenia was used to refer to the disease that had already been called Krpley in the late nineteenth century (early dementia) (Hirsch, 165).

Symptoms of the Disease

Patient with schizophrenia is a person who does not bear the pressure of reality and cannot face the present, so he weaves a world of its own invented for him. The individual is unable to distinguish between fact and fiction. This was confirmed by Dr. Jocelyn Azar who added that several symptoms of schizophrenia appear as follows (Birchwood, 97):

Delirium: a mistaken belief that there are things that already exist which in fact are unrealistic. Examples include the patient's belief that there is a conspiracy against him.

Hallucinations: a sense by one or more of the five senses, the existence of things that do not exist, such as hearing voices, seeing people or ghosts, and the accompanying lack of coherence of ideas and thus the lack of clarity in the words spoken by the patient.

Movement Disorder: This is reflected by increasing agitation, and a frustrated behaviour.

Schizophrenia and other prominent symptoms are manifested in the cold attitute, emotional instability, inward self image, loss of pleasure and logic (Birchwood, 97).

Causes of the Disease and its Development

Schizophrenia shows in late adolescence, the impact of psychological pressure or emotional or social pressures. Its appearance is either in the form of a sudden, unusual behaviour or the delusional ideas and hallucinations, and either in the form of slow reactions, so that the strange behaviour of the person involves the same level of productivity and declining academic or vocational activities. People with schizophrenia are isolated in their own worlds, getting themselves apart from family and Society, unaware and indifferent to what is happening around them. They unleash their ideas unrealistically and over time, it leads to the declining intellectual abilities. That permeates the natural evolution of the patient's tendency to addictions of all kinds. Finally, the infected person may resort to suicide, in any of the ...