Schizophrenia

The Disease

• Schizophrenia usually strikes young people as they are maturing into adulthood.

The Disease

• Schizophrenia means “split mind,” referring to a split from reality that shows itself in disorganized thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions.

The Disease

• The thinking of a person with schizophrenia is fragmented, bizarre, and distorted by false beliefs, called delusions.

The Disease

• A person with schizophrenia may perceive sensory experienced without sensory stimulation, called hallucinations.

The Disease

• The emotions of schizophrenia are inappropriate: showing either a ‘flat affect’ or ‘catatonia.’

The Disease

• There are many different subtypes of schizophrenia, including paranoid, disorganized,catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual.

The Disease

• Paranoid schizophrenics have a preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity.

The Disease

• Disorganized schizophrenics exhibit disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion.

The Disease

• Catatonic schizophrenics display immobility or excessive movement, extreme negativism, and/or parrot-like repeating of another’s speech or movements.

The Disease

• Undifferentiated schizophrenics show many and varied symptoms.

The Disease

• Residual schizophrenics display withdrawal, after hallucinations and delusions have disappeared.

The Disease

• Researchers have discovered an excess of receptors of dopamine in the brains of schizophrenic patients.

Schizophrenia makes me feel...

• Unloved


• Sad


• Confused


• Lonely


• Paranoid


• Delusional


• Angry


• Abnormal

Schizophrenia

Education

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