Schizophrenia
There are many psychological disorders in the world. They can be defined as patterns of behavioral or psychological symptoms that effect multiple areas of life. These disorders create suffering for the person living through these symptoms. In this paper I will discuss one psychological disorder in particular, schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder that distorts the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality, and relates to others. People with the disorder may hear voices others don’t hear and may believe that other people are reading their minds and controlling their thoughts or planning to harm them. These people have trouble with holding down a job, keeping relationships, and focusing in school. This disease causes a person to have troubles functioning in society and they may need to rely on someone else to help take care of them throughout their life. Many places have programs to help these people with jobs, housing and self-help groups.
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Symptoms can be divided into three categories, positive, negative and cognitive symptoms. Positive symptoms have to do with the person’s behavior and may include delusions, hallucination, disorganized thinking, and abnormal motor behavior. Some negative symptoms would be not making eye contact or not changing facial expressions, speaking monotone, and the person might not have the ability to plan or carry out activities. Cognitive symptoms are subtle, they have trouble using information to make decisions and trouble focusing or paying attention this can make it hard for the person to live a normal life and earn a