Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness that causes changes in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self and behavior. Common symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior, lack of motivation and impaired cognitive skills. It is diagnosed through medical exams, history, lab tests and ruling out other potential causes. While the causes are not fully understood, genetics and environmental factors like stress, drug use and complications during birth are thought to play a role.

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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.

3. WHAT IS SCHIZOPHRENIA
• 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).

4. • 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).

5. 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.

6. • Hallucinations and delusions are psychotic symptoms. Hallucinations
are when a person might hear smell or see something that doesn’t exist
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 to cry 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).

7. • 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.

8. 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.

9. 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).

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

11. • 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.

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