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schizophrenia
Candace Moore
Period 1
Main idea
It tells you the main details about it
It has a lot of side effects.
Its one of the most serious mental
disorders.
How to control schizophrenia
topic
There are many problems if
you have this mental disorders.
What is schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia means ‘‘split mind ’’
• Schizophrenia is a disorder characterized by
unpredictable disturbances in thinking, mood,
awareness, and behavior.
• there are really no sighs of schizophrenia
• It can relate to the class by them understanding
what it is and what also causes it.
story
Susy was walking down the street and she was
talking to herself. The lady was walking by her and
looked at at Susy was dressed weird and there was no
one besides them walking. So the lady was trying to
walk as fast as she can so she doesn’t have to walk by
her. Susy wasn’t talking to no one besides herself
because she thought someone was talking to her in
her mind. Susy was talking like she was scared or
something.
Key points
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Positive symptoms include auditory hallucinations, delusions, and thought
disorder. Negative symptoms (anaerobia, a sociality, flattening of affect, and
demotivation) and cognitive dysfunction have not been consistently
improved by any treatment
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Positive symptoms make treatment seem more urgent, and they can often
be effectively treated with antipsychotic drugs. But negative symptoms are
the main reason patients with schizophrenia cannot live independently,
hold jobs, establish personal relationships, and manage everyday social
situations. These symptoms are also the ones that trouble them most.
Surveys find that their chief concerns are difficulty in concentrating,
thinking, socializing, and enjoying life. It is important to distinguish
between lack of expression and lack of feeling, between lack of will and
lack of activity.
summary
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This section was about people that have
schizophrenia and what they do and how they act.
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric illness that can be
profoundly disabling and is usually chronic in
nature.
The cause is not.
The etiology has known, but there appears to be a
genetic predisposition been conceptualized in a
stress/diathesis.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that interferes
with normal thought processes, causing delusions,
hallucinations, mental disorganization, and
physical symptoms.