2. Do you know someone with
Schizophrenia?
According to the National
Institute of Health.
Schizophrenia is a severe
and disabling brain
disorder that has affected
people through history. At
any time one, 7 to 1000
adults have Schizophrenia.
The chance of getting
Schizophrenia at some point
in you life is 1 to 100.
3. Do you know someone with
Schizophrenia?
• Schizophrenia tends to affect
people for the first time as
young adults. The average age
for getting symptoms is 25.
• However, even the fact that
if a person shares 100% of
the genes( that is, an
identical twin) there is only
48% chance of developing
Schizophrenia.
4. Do you know someone with
Schizophrenia?
Suggests that there are many
“environmental” influences that also
determine whether a person a
person develops schizophrenia.
Environmental – is this definition –
includes everything for the nutrition
environment or viruses that a baby is
subject to in the womb, to social
environment growing up, to teen
drug abuse or stress.
5.
6. What is Schizophrenia?
According to MentalHealth.com The
Schizophrenia disorder is characterized in
general by fundamental and characteristic
distortions of thinking and perceptions ad
affect that are inappropriate or blunted.
Clear consciousness and intellectual
capacity are usually maintained, although
certain cognitive deficits may evolve in this
course of time.
7. Positive Symptoms
• Delusions – False beliefs that have no
basis in reality, persecutory, religious,
grandiose, reference, somatic.
• Hallucinations – False perceptions in the
absence of any relevant sensory
stimulus; auditory are most common,
lack of control over hallucinations is key
feature.
8. Negative Symptoms
According to the Harvard Medical
School, These “negative” symptoms
are so called because they are an
absence as much as a presence;
inexpressive faces, blank looks,
monotone and monosyllabic speech,
few gestures, seeming lack of interest
in the world and other people,
inability to feel pleasure or act
spontaneously.
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