Schizophrenia refers to a class of disorders in which severe distortion of reality occurs. Schizophrenia is a serious and chronic illness that requires lifelong treatments that extend beyond medication. The mental illness can be characterized by unreasonable thoughts, abnormal behavior, and many other symptoms. A type of schizophrenia is developed in one out of every a hundred people. Schizophrenia has a wide variety of characteristics that make it easier for professionals to distinguish it from any other type of disorder. These characteristics include emotional disturbances, a decline in functioning, disturbances of thoughts and speech, withdrawal, delusions, hallucinations, and perceptual disorders. Unfortunately the symptoms that schizophrenics display are prone to change drastically over time. People who have symptoms of schizophrenia may also display them in a peculiar pattern. There are five different types of schizophrenia. It is actually extremely …show more content…
The five types of schizophrenia are disorganized (hebephrenic) schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, undifferentiated schizophrenia, and residual schizophrenia. All types of schizophrenia come along with a variation of symptoms. Disorganized or Hebephrenic schizophrenics may seem immature, weirdly, irresponsible, and laugh at something that is not funny in any way. Paranoid schizophrenics are unpredictable, have hallucinations and delusions, they may believe they are being followed or watched. Catatonic schizophrenics suffer physical symptoms from being unable to move for extremely long periods of time to moving violently. Undifferentiated schizophrenics display symptoms from more than one type of schizophrenia. Residual schizophrenics show only a few characteristics of schizophrenia after having a major