Misunderstood Mental Illness

Many people in the world suffer from some sort of mental illness one of the most misunderstood mental illnesses is schizophrenia. People tend to associate schizophrenia with a split personality disorder but the two disorders are completely different. According to the schizophrenia health center “People with schizophrenia – the most chronic and disabling of the major mental—illness often have problems functioning in society”. People who have schizophrenia will have it for the rest of their lives there is no cure but medication can help mange it as much as possible. The symptoms, causes for this mental illness, stigmas that are attached to schizophrenia,

There have been many studies conducted to get a better understanding of this illness and

This mental illness involves a wide variety of symptoms. The positive symptoms are delusions a delusion in a schizophrenic person can be in many ways. The delusions cause them to have untrue beliefs that can rage anywhere from the CIA is after me to there a famous movie star and something horrible is about to happen. It also does not seem to change their mind after a person has tried to explain to them that it is not true. The Mayo clinic states that” Delusions occur in as many as 4 out of 5 people with schizophrenia”. Delusion appears to be one of the most common ones that occur. People with schizophrenia often have hallucinations. A person who has hallucination sees, hears voices, smells things that are not really there it is all in the head. These hallucinations can also play a part with the way they behave in their home and in a public setting. “The hallucinations may talk to the person about his or her behavior, orders the person to do things, or warn the person of

A young boy whose mother and his aunt have schizophrenia the young has now more of higher risk of developing the illness because two family members in his family suffer from it. Brian Smith published an article on Psych central stating “a child whose parent has schizophrenia has about a 10 percent chance of developing schizophrenia themselves” (Smith). There is also the environmental causes for this disorder that occur such in pregnancy or further along. Even being sick or been exposed to an infection or virus. In an article published by HELPGUIDE.ORG“High levels of stress are believed to trigger schizophrenia by increasing the body’s production of the hormone