There are four types of schizophrenia; disorganized type, catatonic type, paranoid type, and undifferentiated type. What are the causes of Schizophrenia? What are the treatments? When discussing schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia

Introduction

It is necessary to take a closer look at schizophrenia because of its importance with the effects it takes with individuals, families, and even society. Each year it is estimated that 2.2 million Americans are infected with the brain disease Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a brutal brain disease that causes delusions, hallucinations, and paranoia. There are four types of schizophrenia; disorganized type, catatonic type, paranoid type, and undifferentiated type. What are the causes of Schizophrenia? What are the treatments? When discussing schizophrenia it is important to consider the different types of schizophrenia, the causes, and different treatments to prove that there are successful ways of managing severe symptoms of schizophrenia.

Symptoms

There are two groups of symptoms - positive and negative. Symptoms are divided in this way according to their impact on treatment and diagnosis (Turner, 1999).

Positive symptoms are caused by normal functions superfluity or distortion. They are:

Delusions. It is fallacious inflexible beliefs that appear as a result of exaggerations or distortions of reasoning and false interpretation of things taking place. For example, one can think that some book was written especially for him/her.

Hallucinations. It is exaggerations or distortions of senses. The most widely distributed are auditory hallucinations, when one can hear non-existent imaginary sounds, especially voices.

Disorganized speech/thinking, also described as "thought disorder" or "loosening of associations," is a key aspect of schizophrenia. Disorganized thinking is usually assessed primarily based on the person's speech. Therefore, tangential, loosely associated, or incoherent speech severe enough to substantially impair effective communication is used as an indicator of thought disorder.

Grossly disorganized behavior. It means that the person leads to difficulties in everyday actions and activities, behaves unpredictably or silly, uninhibitedly and bizarrely. Such strange behavior is usually caused by delusional beliefs.
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Catatonic behavior can be seen in more intense reactions to any surrounding occurrences, in some cases it has the form of motionless and apparent unawareness, rigid or bizarre postures, or aimless excess motor activity.

Other symptoms are more rare and not enough to diagnosis schizophrenia. They are: affect inappropriate to the situation or stimuli, unusual motor behavior (pacing, rocking), depersonalization, derealization, and somatic preoccupations.

The diagnosis of schizophrenia requires at least 1-month duration of two or more positive symptoms, unless hallucinations or delusions are especially bizarre, in which case one alone suffices for diagnosis.

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