Symptoms And Symptoms Of Schizophrenia - 2145 Words

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder and it is defined by the diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorder (DSM-IV) as a term introduced by Bleuler, which refers to a persistent, often chronic and usually serious mental disorder affecting a variety of aspects of behavior, thinking, and emotion. Patients with delusions or hallucinations may be described as psychotic. Thinking may be disconnected and illogical. Peculiar behaviors may be associated with social withdrawal and disinterest. According to the DSM-IV, schizophrenia is divided into positive and negative clusters of mental symptoms. The positive may be considered as symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. Unlike the positive symptoms, the negative cluster of symptoms for†¦show more content†¦The media portrays people with schizophrenia to be violent and also able to commit gruesome murders. With this negative media attention people in the United States seem to have an obscured idea about this mental illness. T here are positive, negative, and disorganized symptoms each different in their own way; but work together to formulate schizophrenia. The positive symptoms displayed in a patient with schizophrenia, which are the obvious sighs of psychosis. The patient at this point is experiencing disturbing forms of hallucination and delusions. About 50 percent to 70 percent of schizophrenic patients experience delusions, hallucinations, or both (Durand Barlow, 2009, p.472). A delusion is basically a fixed falls belief or something that may be viewed by the public as a misrepresentation. There are two different types of delusions: delusion of grandeur where the person feels like they are god and everyone looks up to them, and delusions of persecution: where the person fears that others are out to get them. The delusion of persecution and delusion of grander are actually the most common form of delusion in patients with schizophrenia. A man by the name of Edgar beliefs in his mind that people are out to