3. Schizophrenia is a disease of the
mind that can cause delusions,
trouble with interaction and many
other symptom's, however
schizophrenia can be categorized
into 5 different types.
4. ParanoidSchizophrenia is categorized by the
following symptoms….
Hallucinations (such as hearing voices)
Delusions (like thinking people are trying to kill you)
Anxiety
Anger
Emotional Distance
Violence
Suicidal thoughts and tendencies
However, none of these symptoms hinder everyday life
5. Common Delusions Include: a feeling that
you are being singled out for harm, maybe
a belief that a coworker or friend is trying
to hurt you.
6. Those with paranoid schizophrenia also tend
to have hallucinations, like hearing or
seeing things that no on else can.
9. This type of schizophrenia is categorized by
the following symptoms…
Poor speech
Antisocial or strange behavior
10. Disorganized Schizophrenia often causes people to
experience psychosis. Psychosis is when thoughts and
emotions become so impaired that all sense of reality is
lost.
11. Because those suffering from disorganized
schizophrenia often suffer from
Psychosis, they often have trouble
functioning in everyday reality
12. Those diagnosed with Catatonic Schizophrenia also suffer
from psychosis and have trouble with movements. Those
with this disease either are in a coma-like state or
hyperactive, however nowadays, it is rare to have this type
of schizophrenia due to improved medications.
13. This type of schizophrenia includes all of the other
symptoms that catatonic, paranoid, and disorganized
schizophrenia have, except it cannot be determined
which symptoms are more prevalent over the others.
Hence, this diagnosis is a hard one to make and even
harder to treat.
14. Residual Schizophrenia is when the patient, has, in the
past shown some signs of having one type of
schizophrenia, but little to no symptoms at all. However,
patients can still experience delusions and other
symptoms.
16. Schizophrenia is thought to occur in late
adolescents or early adulthood.
1% of the US population has schizophrenia and it
occurs equally between men and women.
However women’s symptoms usually manifest
later in life than male’s.
17. Researchers believe that schizophrenia has
something to do with genes.
Ithas shown that those with close relatives
with schizophrenia have a better chance of
having the disease.
18. Schizophrenia is treated with antipsychotics
such as Clozaril. Clozapine aka Clozaril, was
the first anti-psychotic drug introduced in
the 90’s. While it is effective in treating
schizophrenia is also can cause
agranulocytosis or the loss of white blood
cells.
Other drugs such as olanzapine
(Zyprexa), quetiapine (Seroquel�), and
risperidone (Risperdal�) have less risk
that Clozapine however, are not as
effective.
19. Antipsychotics are very effective In treating
hallucinogenic and delusional symptoms but can often
have side effects.
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