Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness that affects a person's perception of reality. People with schizophrenia may experience hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking. Common symptoms include thought disorders, emotional flatness, impaired cognition, and lack of motivation. Schizophrenia can be triggered by genetic predispositions, brain abnormalities, stress, drug use, and other environmental factors. Doctors diagnose schizophrenia through psychiatric evaluations, medical history, physical exams, and lab tests to check for other potential medical causes of symptoms.

1. PHYSIOLOGICAL
HALLUCINATIONS
ILLNESS
DELUSIONS

2. Schizophrenia is a chronic disease which affects the way a person thinks, sees the
world as well as their actions. People with schizophrenia have a changing
recognition of the real world often a crucial loss of connection of the real world.
Schizophrenia causes illusionary seeing and hearing as well as strange and
confusing ways of speaking. They believe that others are trying to hurt them or
that they are always being observed. Schizophrenia makes it strenuous even panic
to interact with daily life tasks, people with extract from the outside world or
react out of hesitation and agitation (What is schizophrenia?, (n.d).

3. • Symptoms of schizophrenia can appear immediately
without caution as but most of the time the symptoms
come slowly with small warnings and a moderate
rejection in functioning appears. People with
schizophrenia tend to become anti-social and show no
signs of wanting to communicate. A lack of
motivation is also one of the symptoms causing the
sufferer to have no interferes or desire for anything
(Samuel b. guze,1970).

4. SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS
• Thought disorder is one of symptoms of
schizophrenia which causes the person to think and
have illogical conversations as well as lack in order
and may be delusional satisfied. The person suffering
from this illness develops a failure in expressing their
emotions and feelings. A decline in impaired
memory and thinking skills are also one of the
symptoms causing poor focus, slow thinking and
fuzzy memory.

5. Hallucinationsand delusions are psychotic symptoms. Hallucinations arewhen a person
might hear smell or see something that doesn’te xist but the sufferer thinks is legitimate.
Delusions are beliefs that are deceptive for example mistreatment, nobility, disgrace that
seem completely real to the person having delusions.
A few common early warnings are being unable toc ry or express happiness, laughing or
crying inappropriately. Over sleeping or insomnia are also very common as well as having a
loss of concentration and using weird words or ways of speaking(.Signs and symptoms of
schizophrenia,(n.d).

6. Hereditary is one of strong causes of schizophrenia. It is affected by genetics not driven by it,
whilst it runs in families about 60% of sufferers have no family with the disorder.
Furthermore people who are genetically inclined to schizophrenia don’t always develop the
disease which goes to show that biology is not destiny

7. CAUSES AND EFFECTS
• Complications during pregnancy or labour that causes
structural damage to the brain may as well be one of
the causes of schizophrenia. People who are sensitive
to any family tensions which for them may be
associated with frequent experiences any may as well
cause them to become schizophrenic.

8. CAUSES AND EFFECTS
• Stressful incidents are another cause of
schizophrenia causing the sufferer to often become
anxious, annoyed and unable to concentrate causing
problems with work study and relationships (causes
and effects of schizophrenia, 2014).

9. CAUSES AND EFFECTS
• Harmful drug use and alcohol especially
cannabis and amphetamine may trigger
psychosis and people who exposed to
developing schizophrenia.

10. • Full psychiatric progression, physical exam, medical history and lab
tests are all ways that schizophrenia can be diagnosed. Psychiatric
progression-the doctor or psychiatrist will ask a number of
questions about any symptoms, psychiatric history and family
history of mental health issues. Medical history and exams require
answers regarding your family or personal health history asked by
your doctor. Your doctor will also perform an entire physically
examination to check for medicinal issues which may be the cause
of the problem. Simply blood or urine tests are also ways of
diagnosing schizophrenia as they can rule out other medical causes
of symptoms. The doctor may also order brain imaging such as an
MRI or a CT scan in or to look for abnormalities in the brain
associating with schizophrenia.