Schizophrenia Case Studies

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a progressive mental illness of an unknown etiology prone to chronic course, proceeding with polymorphic symptoms and leading to a special personality defect different from the defect that occurs with grossly organic brain lesions. It is manifested by typical changes in the personality of the patient and different in degree of severity by other mental disorders, often leading to persistent violations of social adaptation and work capacity.

With this disease, patients become withdrawn, social contacts are lost, they suffer a depletion of emotional reactions. Along with this, different degrees of the disorder of sensations, perception, thinking and motor-volitional are observed.

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Of course, a hereditary factor, an unhappy lifestyle or serious stressful situations can affect the development of ailment, but most psychiatrists note that billions of people face all the hard problems, and very few people become mentally ill. Guarantees that one of close people will not fall ill with schizophrenia, no. In this case, the patient turns away from the patient, and relatives fall into despair. Such a situation in the society even more depresses the psychological state of the patient with schizophrenia, a vicious circle is obtained (Szasz S,Thomas 2010). Therefore it is so important to support and calm him psychologically. These actions should serve as an alternative to alleviate the patient's psychological state.

It is generally believed that a mentally ill person does not understand well. In fact, it has been proven that many patients have very high rates of intellectual ability. And, their level of IQ is often much higher than that of a typical average citizen. Schizophrenia is often diagnosed in sensitive people with outstanding mental

Most often, the beginning is accounted for in adolescence and characterized by a paroxysmal course. The patient has a pronounced inadequate behavior with fanciful gestures and grimaces. In speech there is a torn thinking, lack of logic and delusions. With progressive progress, patients are uninitialized and lose the ability to manifest feelings. All the symptoms in schizophrenia can be divided into two groups: Positive. Positive symptoms are characterized by the presence of hallucinations (predominantly auditory). The patient is sure that all the voices he hears are addressed directly to him, although he can not explain exactly where he hears them from. Voices can carry a different character: they can praise, humiliate, or threaten. Another peculiarity of the symptomatology is the presence of delusional ideas: the patient can consider himself a genius scientist or seeks to settle scores with life. The emotional sphere in positive symptoms is characterized by a depressed (depressed) or elevated (manic) mood; Negative. Negative symptoms are manifested in the form of autism - a sense of isolation and the desire to leave the places of the general congestion of people, as well as the lack of