Schizophrenia

A severe and chronic disorder of the brain which tends to be particularly disabling, Schizophrenia has proven to yield the likeliness to emerge earlier in the life cycle of men than that of woman. While the disorder typically affects men in their late tends – early twenties phase (s) while women usually tend to be affected during the late twenties – early thirties period of their life cycles.

It would, moreover, also be relevant to here acknowledge that one of the prime reasons due to which the mental disorders contemporaneously demands so much attention is that it tends to be significantly prevalent; approximately 2.5 million Americans are known to suffer from the disorder annually.

The nature of the disease, furthermore, is such that it significantly impacts a person’s capability to exist in harmony with society, subsequently brining about a modicum of constant awkwardness and self consciousness on the part of the person suffering from it.

This, moreover, is something that tends to be accentuated quite emphatically when considering it in light of the fact that schizophrenic individuals usually tend to suffer from symptoms that more or less imply the presence of a dramatic mental or psychological abnormality.

It would be relevant to here consider that as a basic result of their disorder, people with schizophrenia experience disturbances and imbalances of their sensory perception, something that inevitably renders them vulnerable to hallucination.

Schizophrenics seem to lose to capacity for effectually distinguishing between situations that are real and those that are nothing more than figments of their imagination. Resultantly, they are uncharacteristically terrified, overjoyed, excited or sad in respective accordance to the perceived state of their surroundings regardless of the fact whether these surroundings are real or wholly perceived.

It is essential, on a more fundamentally level, to acknowledge the fact that schizophrenic symptoms exist upon two broad categories; positive symptoms and negative symptoms. And while the former set of symptoms refers to any behavioral activity that is above and beyond what is considered to be normal behavior; the latter refers to behavioral levels that may be rates as being below the accepted levels of normal.

While uninspired agitation, hallucinations and delusions fall into the category of positive symptoms as they tend to be additional behavioral characteristics, emotional unresponsiveness, apathy and the lack to focus constitute negative symptoms as they imply a lack of normal behavior.

While the symptoms of schizophrenia fall into two broad categories, however, there are basically four types of schizophrenia, each defined upon the pretext of the specific behavioral patterns that it makes emergent.

They are Paranoid, Disorganized, Catatonic and Residual Schizophrenia. While paranoid schizophrenia usually induces suspicious, persecuted and/or grandiose emotions in affected individuals, disorganized schizophrenia leads to basic incoherence. And while catatonic schizophrenia brings forth withdrawn, mute and negative responses, residual schizophrenia entails a complete lack of motivation.