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Schizophrenia: Causes, Symptoms, Types and Treatments
What do you mean by Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a conventional mental disorder which leads to anti-social behavior or abnormal social behavior. People suffering from schizophrenia fail to recognize what is real and what is not and imagine things in a fictive way. Being a sever disorder; it also affects the person’s perception, thinking ability and behavioral patterns. The patients tend to be indifferent, withdrawn, dull and unresponsive with drained emotional issues with awkwardness in social situations.
People seldom take Schizophrenia for multiple personality disorder or split personality disorder, which in real is not. People who are suffering from Schizophrenia are not violent
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There were theories including genetics, chemistry, biology, psychology and other issues. However, the misconception of Schizophrenia being caused by upbringing situations, lack of parenting care, amusing accidents is spread throughout the word. This is not true. Schizophrenia is caused by immune brain disorders and stern viral infections.
Biological Reasons: Brain uses certain chemicals depending on the genetic design of an inhabitant. Schizophrenia is often caused by chemical imbalance in brain which is caused by chemicals like dopamine and serotonin. These chemicals are neurotransmitters which are responsible for receiving stimuli and giving reflexes. They allow the nerve cells to send messages from brain to each other nerves. The person affected with Schizophrenia gets overwhelmed due to these transmitters when exposed to sensory information. This hinders the reactions and lead to imaginary situations and authentic hallucinations.
Genetic Reasons: A disorder that runs in the family and is inherited by a person due to the tendency of the Genes and helps to increase the severity of disease. Scientists define this order as the one that is caused due to the Genes in the family and is triggered by stressed situations, viral infections and environmental events. Just like any other genetic illness, Schizophrenia is subjected to physical, psychological and hormonal