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Schizophrenia

Noel Adler
period 8
3-26-15

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and


failure to recognize what is real and what is fake. Common behavior includes false beliefs,
unclear or confused thinking, auditory hallucinations, reduced social engagement and emotional
expression, and inactivity. Some other behaviors are seeing things that aren't really there. For
example some people with the illness see spiders crawling on them or other insects on other
objects. They also see people that aren't there and the people can tell them to do dangerous
activities like harm someone or harm himself, A lot of times they do what the fake person says.
The people that have schizophrenia dont know that the people that they are seeing are not real
until they get help but that is sometimes hard for them because a lot of times they dont even
know that they have schizophrenia so they cant get help. People still dont know what causes
schizophrenia but a lot of research has shown that it is genetic or from genetic combinations to
develop the disorder through those chemical combination is the DNA. A lot of other scientists
believe that the illness can just be born with. Their research shows that some of the kids and
other adults are born with it and none of their ancestors have it or their parents. They also
believe that it can also be caused from high levels of dopamine or glutamate. There is a lot of
other related mental disorders for example, schizotypal personality disorder, delusional disorder,
schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder. There are also a lot of different behaviors
that characterize schizophrenia for example, social withdrawal, hostility or suspiciousness,
deterioration of personal hygiene, flat, expressionless gaze, inability to cry or express joy,
inappropriate laughter or crying, depression, oversleeping or insomnia. Some of treatment to
cure schizophrenia is seeing a therapist who can tell you that the people that they are seeing
aren't real, but the bad thing about that method of treatment is that they have to go in and see

the counselor three times a week for a couple of years. Another method of treatment is getting 1
shot a week for 4 months that will make the hallucinations a little more mild but they will still
have them. One of the methods that they used along time ago when schizophrenia what first
discovered was they would put them on a metal bed and when they have the hallucinations they
would shock them. They would do that 1 time a week for a year.

sources

http://psychcentral.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/
nimh.nih.gov

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