Today we had a discussion on schizophrenia, a psychiatric disease which occupy a large population of the world today..
Schizo-"splitting", thus a mismonomer of splitting of mind came about on schizophrenia. It's actually a disease with unknown causes(genetic, biochemical changes in brain etc) whereby it affect the three main functions of the brain= thinking, emotion and behaviour. Thus, schizophrenic patient can sometime cause a lot of chaos in daily life without they themselves knowing it. They manifested mainly via positive and negative symptoms Those positive symptoms will include various way of *delusions and hallucination. Whereas in negative symptoms, they will usually have *blunted affect, avolition, alogia, anhedonia and asociality.
However, the disease itself is manageable by medications which include all the antipsychotics(typical-haloperidol/chlorpromazine or atypical-clozapine/risperidone). And, most importantly they can get back to their normal daily functions with compliance to their medications.
* Delusions- belief firmly held in spite of evidence of the contrary and not in keeping with the person's education, social and cultural background.
Hallucinations- perception of something without any external stimulus.
Avolition- lack of drive and motive
Alogia- reduced content in speech
Affect- blunted(no change in facial expression)
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