By definition, schizo means split, and phrenia refers to the mind. Schizophrenia is varcharacterized as a split personality disorder, because the person’s thoughts and feelings do not relate to each other in a logical fashion. The individual can’t tell fact from fantasy. Behavior is irrational. Schizophrenia is a group of emotional disorders including catatonic, paranoid, disorganized, undifferentiated and residual schizophrenia.
Causes of Schizophrenic Disorders
The exact cause of schizophrenia is unknown.
Signs and Symptoms of Schizophrenic Disorders
The symptoms associated with the various forms of schizophrenia may take months or years to become apparent. The individual involved slowly becomes more withdrawn and introverted, alienating friends and family. Motivation for any activity gradually declines. There may be severe limitations of emotions, or inappropriate expression of emotions. Eventually, delusions and hallucinations occur. There is disordered thinking that is varcharacterized by disorganized or disjointed speech. Delusions develop that may cause the individual involved to feel that other people hear and steal one’s thoughts, or that one is being controlled by others. Paranoid schizophrenia has many of the features cited above. However, the predominant behavior is unwarranted suspicion and paranoid behavior.
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