Within the last few years, schizophrenia has become a more common place in an everyday language. Imagine walking down a busy street on a Saturday afternoon. As every person passes by, a quick greeting is exchanged, but further down the street, there is an individual who is speaking to an imaginary figure. In the real world, these individuals exist everywhere. Many that have witnessed these individuals prefer to stay clear and avoid them by crossing the street or turning around. Furthermore, not only are there people that rather avoid these individuals, there are many that wonder as ask questions such as where does schizophrenia comes from? what are the symptoms? what qualifies as a diagnosis? what are some appropriate treatments? and how do
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Who invented it? According to an article in schizophrenia.com, there is written documents that can trace schizophrenia “to the old Pharaonic Egypt, as far back as the second millennium before Christ” (schiprenia.com). There was a time where people with “abnormal” behavior such as mental retardation, mental illness, or people with physical deformities were all consider and treated the same. People used to believe that mental disorders were cause by evil possession of the individual’s body, and believed that the only way on saving the individual from the evil possession was through exorcising the demons. In addition, people practiced many different ways to attempt to save the individual from the mental disorders, ranging from harmless treatments, such as exposing the patient to certain types of music, to dangerous and sometimes deadly practices, such as releasing the evil spirits by drilling holes in the patient's …show more content…
These persecutory delusions often involve bizarre ideas and plot” (Smith & Segal, October 2012). Schizophrenia is a severe psychological disorder that causes the individual to lose touch with reality, and have them experience hallucinations and delusions. Hallucinations refers to when the individual experiences perceptions, such as hearing voices, seeing, smelling, or feelings things that do not exist. Delusions are when the individual cannot tell what is real and what is being imagined, which causes the individual to have beliefs in things that are untrue. The symptoms of delusions and hallucinations causes the individual to experience disturb thinking, bizarre behavior, and causes them to become socially withdrawn. According to the article Schizophrenia, author Roxanne Edwards states that “there are five types of Schizophrenia based on the kind of symptoms the person has at the time of assessment: paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual” (Edwards, November
Who invented it? According to an article in schizophrenia.com, there is written documents that can trace schizophrenia “to the old Pharaonic Egypt, as far back as the second millennium before Christ” (schiprenia.com). There was a time where people with “abnormal” behavior such as mental retardation, mental illness, or people with physical deformities were all consider and treated the same. People used to believe that mental disorders were cause by evil possession of the individual’s body, and believed that the only way on saving the individual from the evil possession was through exorcising the demons. In addition, people practiced many different ways to attempt to save the individual from the mental disorders, ranging from harmless treatments, such as exposing the patient to certain types of music, to dangerous and sometimes deadly practices, such as releasing the evil spirits by drilling holes in the patient's …show more content…
These persecutory delusions often involve bizarre ideas and plot” (Smith & Segal, October 2012). Schizophrenia is a severe psychological disorder that causes the individual to lose touch with reality, and have them experience hallucinations and delusions. Hallucinations refers to when the individual experiences perceptions, such as hearing voices, seeing, smelling, or feelings things that do not exist. Delusions are when the individual cannot tell what is real and what is being imagined, which causes the individual to have beliefs in things that are untrue. The symptoms of delusions and hallucinations causes the individual to experience disturb thinking, bizarre behavior, and causes them to become socially withdrawn. According to the article Schizophrenia, author Roxanne Edwards states that “there are five types of Schizophrenia based on the kind of symptoms the person has at the time of assessment: paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual” (Edwards, November