Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder which can disrupt a person’s perception, thought, speech, movement and almost every aspect of daily functioning. Schizophrenia is one of the disorders that involve psychotic behavior; it usually involves delusions (irrational beliefs) and/or hallucinations (sensory experiences in the absence of external events).
There can be positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and also disorganized symptoms (Lewis, 2009). Positive symptoms generally include the more active manifestations of abnormal behavior or an excess or distortion of normal behavior; these include delusions and hallucinations. Negative symptoms include deficits in normal behavior in areas as speech and motivation. Disorganized symptoms include
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anhedonia ( where she wants to avoid dating and intimacy relationships)
• Positive symptoms of delusions of persecution and hallucinations, where the voices told her to kill her little sister.
. Voices can be triggered if someone (male) roughly handles or touch her. Her schizophrenic seemed to be triggered engagement of some kind of intimacy, this led to Lucy thinking that she could never be able to date and therefore have a normal life
Grace’s mother - Bipolar
Bipolar is a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness of depression and the overexcited and unreasonably optimistic state of mania. Bipolar mood disorder is accompanied by the signs of both episodic depressed mood and episodic mania. Carson, Butcher and Mineka (1996) describe bipolar disorder as the series of attacks of elation and depression, with periods of relative normality in between. It is marked by extreme changes in mood, thoughts, energy and behaviour.
Manic state
• Period of abnormally high emotion and activity
– Supreme self-confidence - delusional
– Grandiose ideas and movements – too many goals in too little time
– Flight of ideas – rapid and loosely shifting thoughts that jump from topic to topic.
Manic Episode
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Afterward, victims re-experience the event through memories and nightmares. When memories occur suddenly accompanied by strong emotion and the victims her reliving the event, she having flashback. Victims most often avoid anything that reminds them of the trauma. They display a characteristic restriction or numbing of emotional responsiveness, which may be disruptive to interpersonal relationships. It is an emotional disorder occur after physical assault (particularly rape), car accidents, natural catastrophes, or the sudden death of a loved one.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnostic Criteria:
• The person has been exposed to a traumatic event in either ways: The person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involve actual or threatened death or serious injury; and the person’s response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
• After the traumatic event has occurred: Recurrent, involuntary, and intrusive distressing memories of the traumatic event, Recurrent distressing dreams in which the content of the dream are related to the traumatic