Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mysterious Illness that blurs the line between real and unreal experiences in   patients that have the disorder. Generally people with schizophrenia have a harder time thinking clearly and logically they usually do not to act appropriately in everyday social situations like interacting with other people in public. Schizophrenia as a condition has a wide range of symptoms, these symptoms begin to become apparent slowly over months or ever years. Symptoms in schizophrenic patients also seem to cycle between times of more symptoms and less symptoms. Early symptoms of schizophrenia include: feeling tense, having trouble sleeping and concentrating, becoming isolated and withdrawn and having trouble making and keeping friends/ relationships with others. As the illness continues to progress, psychotic symptoms begin to show physically. A patient will show a mood that displays no emotion and make strange, unexplained movements. There will also be beliefs or thoughts that are not based on reality. Patients start to hear, see and feel things that are not there, sensing things that are not there is generally the first thing someone thinks of when they hear that someone is schizophrenic. Problems with thinking include trouble paying attention and thoughts “jumping” between random unrelated topics (disordered thinking). Because of the wide range of symptoms and the complexity of the illness schizophrenia is very hard to diagnose.
There are three main types of schizophrenia paranoid, disorganized and catatonic schizophrenics. Paranoid schizophrenics tend to have very bad anxiety problems stopping them from doing anything that could put them in any type of danger like leaving their house. Even in a completely controlled, safe environment paranoid schizophrenics usually think that someone or something is out to get them. There also tends to be huge anger and argumentative problems. Whereas disorganized schizophrenics have trouble thinking and expressing their...