schizophrenia
Posted in Psychology on 04/14/2008 06:02 pm by anne mtsuki
we have all heard about daydreaming. till date, my mother scolds me atleast twice a day for the same. but this ‘daydreaming’ often has an acute form. this is called schizophrenia. schizophrenia is a state in which a person completely dissapears into their own mind, and creates a completely different wold to exist in. they no longer can connect with reality. it is a disease which can effect almost anyone, if they are subjected to extreme stress, or no longer find the ‘real world’ attractive. some people think that even the eyes of people suffering from scizophrenia look empty. i did some research……….
Schizophrenia, from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν, “to split”) and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-, “mind“), is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality, most commonly manifesting as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking in the context of significant social or occupational dysfunction. Onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood,with approximately 0.4'0.6% of the population affected. Diagnosis is based on the patient’s self-reported experiences and observed behavior. No laboratory test for schizophrenia currently exists.
For this reason, Eugen Bleuler termed the disease the schizophrenias (plural) when he coined the name. Despite its etymology, schizophrenia is not synonymous with dissociative identity disorder, previously known as multiple personality disorder; in popular culture the two are often confused.
