2. Schizophrenia Definition
Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally.
It is classified separately form other disorders because it is not easily to categorized as and
anxiety or mood disorder.
Schizophrenia is characterized by the inability to separate reality from and a non-reality
Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely
disordered thinking and behavior.
3. Causes
No one knows the exact cause of schizophrenia, possible factors :
Generics
Women infected with the influenza virus during the pregnancy are more likely to
give birth to children who develop a disorder.
Schizophrenics brains also contain large fluid filled areas than their healthy brain
counterparts.
4. Schizophrenic Delusions
Delusions is a false belief
Some common delusions include:
Being cheated
Being harassed
Being poisoned
Being spied upon
Being plotted against
5. Schizophrenic Hallucinations
Hallucinations , is a nonexistent stimulus that is perceived as real.
The most common schizophrenic hallucination is hearing voices, however that patient
may also have visual hallucinations where they see a persona or object that does not
exist.
Hallucinated voices often interact with the patient by :
*Commenting on their behavior
*Ordering them to do things
*Warning of impending dangers
*Talking to other voices about the patient
6. Treating Schizophrenia
Antipsychotic this drugs, have some mild side effects including drowsiness, weight
gain, jitters, movement problems, and muscles contractions.
Therapy and counseling also are effective.
7. Live with Schizophrenia
Many people diagnosed with schizophrenia are still able to live a normal life.
They have to take their medications and abstain from drugs and drinking.
John Nash-Novel
Prize Winner
Syd Barret Pink Floyd
guitarist
Mary Lincoln, wife of
Abraham Lincoln
8. The Beautiful Mind
The beautiful mind movie, was created on the life of John Nash who suffers of
Schizophrenia .
The movie drew the audience into Nash’s delusions, with the imagined people and
conspiracies seeming to be completely real.
Nash is diagnosed with Schizophrenia and his delusions are revealed to the audience.
9. The movie documents Nash’s struggles with his schizophrenia and becomes a
professor at Princeton as well as the recipient of a Novel Prize for one economic
theories.
The movie shows a decent portrayal of a schizophrenia and helps viewers
understand how reality can become so mixed up in the mind of a Schizophrenic.
