History of Schizophrenia:
People who suffered from this illness were thought to be possessed by demons. They were feared, tormented, exiled or they were locked up forever. People who imagine a person with schizophrenia as being more violent or out of control than a person who has another kind of serious mental illness.
What is Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is characterized by a broad range of unusual behaviors that cause profound disruption in the lives of people suffering from the condition, as well as in the lives of the people around them.
What does Schizophrenia conclude?
Delusions and hallucinations are common in schizophrenia. An obvious kinds of impairments that are caused by schizophrenia involves how a person thinks. They lose the ability to rationally evaluate their surroundings and interactions with others. They have trouble understanding what is true reality and what is not. And most of the things that they see, they believe to be their true reality when it really isn't.
This disorder reminds me of Criminal Minds. If any of you are familiar with that T.V show series should know what I am talking about, but for those that aren't I'll explain. In Criminal Minds special agent Dr. Spencer Reid's mother had schizophrenia, but there is an entire episode focusing on a person who has schizophrenia. The episode is called "with friends like these" which as I stated focuses on a person who is being manipulated. It has voices as actual characters was a convincing way of showing how afflicted and defenseless a schizophrenic who is constantly paranoid can be. You can see the part 1 of the clip here with friends like these part 2
People with schizophrenia act in an extremely paranoid manner. I had no idea that nearly 1/3 of people that are diagnosed with schizophrenia attempt suicide. I also didn't know that 10% of those will commit suicde within 20 years of beginning of the disorder.
The relationship of schizophrenia and substance abuse is significant. According to the site I mention (PsychCentral) due to impairments in insight and judgement, people with schizophrenia may be less able to judge and control the temptations are associated with drugs or alcohol abuse.
The website has a lot of information
that you can read dealing with Schizophrenia. To read up on it here is the
PsychCentral website: All about Schizophrenia and Psychosis
Here are just a few signs of
schizophrenia:
Social isolation and withdrawal
- Irrational, bizarre or odd statements or beliefs
- Increased paranoia or questioning others' motivations
- Becoming more emotionless
- Hostility or suspiciousness
- Increasing reliance on drugs or alcohol (in an attempt to self-medicate)
- Lack of motivation
Feel free to offer your own opinions
and thoughts about schizophrenia, and I hope you guys enjoyed my post.
4 comments:
I think it would be pretty scary to be leaving with this illness. I get scared now being alone at night, I can't imagine how these people do it to be hearing things all the time or even imagining. Im also a bit glad I have not encountered anyone like that. I think it would be a bit frightening, or maybe I have encountered but just dont know it. Rather not.
this disorder is one that i personally think is one of the scariest one, especially when a child is the one who is experiencing it. i don't know how someone can go much time with this disorder because its so scary and so harmful.. practically having someone telling you to harm yourself or getting to the point of committing suicide
I found the video interesting but question whether it dipicts the disorder accurately. I am not debating this, I am just wondering. It sounds a lot like what used to be called MPD or is now dissociative personality disorder. Either way, it would be hard to function normally with voices and hallucinations. I have always found this disorder to be quite interesting and yet I know so little about it. It also seems, to me, to be one of the most severe of mental disorders. Great post!
Your post was very informative which i liked. I can imagine how bad this mental disorder was back in the day when there was no treatment for it. If people thought someone with Schizophrenia was possesed by demons then they their symptoms must have been very severe and scary. Even for this reason, I don't think this is an excuse for them to have done what they did to them such as locking them up forever.
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