How can we define “schizophrenia”?
Introduction:
“The schizophrenia has its own paradise, in the same way as it´s hell and purgatory”
The Perception´s Doors (1954)
Schizophrenia: A severe psychotic disorder characterized by a loss of contact with reality and the disintegration of the personality. The main reason why I decided to write about mental illness is because I have always thought that everything related to mental sickness is nowadays a taboo and it should not be worn. So with this essay, I try to explain in the most concise way possible.
What is it from the point of view of several psychologists?
The concept of schizophrenia has not always existed as such. Both this entity as Bipolar Disorder were differentiated with the passing of the psychiatry. Emil Kraepelin showed
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We must rely on the anamnesis and in a meticulous examination of mental state. Some symptoms may appear months or years before the first psychotic outbreak. We highlight:
- Personalities premorbid: schizoid or schizotypal, silent, passive and introverted.
- Initial symptoms: somatic complaints, behavioral changes, deterioration in social or occupational functioning, obsessive-compulsive behaviors of abrupt onset, development of new interests (abstract issues, philosophical, religious) or changes in the speech or the thought, which may become peculiar.
Review of the general state
We can find a patient physically neglected or on the contrary obsessively care. It is often a restless or agitated behavior in response to the symptomatology or stationary, even catatonic. Tics are frequent and the stereotypes. There may be echopraxia (repetition of the movements of the examiner). Attention should be paid to the existence of Local neurologic signs, astereognosis (failure to recognize objects by touch) and Primitive reflexes. (2011)
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