Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder that causes abnormal interpretations of reality, characterized by hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking. Some key factors that may contribute include genetics and viral infections during pregnancy. Common delusions include feelings of being harassed or plotted against, while hallucinations often involve hearing voices. Treatment involves antipsychotic medications and therapy, and many people with schizophrenia can live normal lives by adhering to their treatment plans.

1. Schizophrenia
Mental Disorder
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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.
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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.

10. The movie Scenes
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=188X5xOa2Mg

11. Bibliography
 https://health.google.com/healthy/ref/schizophenia
 https://schizophrenia.com/family/FAQgen.htm
 www.shizowikipedia