Schizophrenia Discusses all of the signs and symptoms of the disease, as well as the physiological and social effects that it has on an individual.

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating mental illness. The disease can cause you to withdraw from the people and activities in the world around you and retreat into a world of delusions and fantasies. Schizophrenia is the most common kind of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which your interpretation of reality can be severely abnormal. Schizophrenia causes a slowly progressive deterioration in your ability to function in various roles, especially in your job and personal life. Schizophrenia is one of the most complex and disabling of the major mental illnesses. This is due to the fact that people who suffer from this condition can have a number of different symptoms, symptoms ranging from hallucinations to abnormal expression of emotions.

Signs and symptoms of schizophrenia may include two or more of the following: delusions, prominent hallucinations for much of the day, incoherence, lack of or inappropriate display of emotions, bizarre delusions.

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Problems or less ability to function in work, in social interactions and with personal hygiene. Continuous signs for at least 6 months and no evidence of a brain tumor or blood vessel disease. The symptoms of schizophrenia may vary greatly. The symptoms of schizophrenia are generally broken into two categories negative and positive effects. Negative effects are ones that are present but have no real signs of a serious problem, whereas positive effects are ones in which are more evident that there is a problem.

Negative symptoms may appear early in the disease, and when they occur many do not realize they have a problem and thus refrain from getting treatment. Negative symptoms generally accompany a slow deterioration of function, leading to a person becoming less sociable. Some negative symptoms are a severe reduction in emotional expressiveness and therefore may not show the signs of normal...