psych final
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Schizophrenia
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What is schizophrenia?
• Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it difficult to tell the difference between real and unreal experiences, to think logically, to have normal emotional responses, and to behave normally in social situations
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Schizophrenia
• No one really knows what causes this disease• There is also no cure just medications that
sedate the hallucinations• There does seem to be a genetic link as many
people in the same family do get schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia
• It affects about 1% of the words population • Both genders get it equally but women seem
to get it later in life and have a milder case of it
• It usually begins in early adulthood but can sometimes not set in until as late as 45 years of age
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Environmental factors
• Researchers believe that environmental factors can speed up the effects of schizophrenia with people that already have the disease
• Complications during birth or traumatic events can cause schizophrenia to take hold earlier
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Symptoms
• Psychological symptoms of schizophrenia include
• Having visual or auditory Hallucinations• Catatonic behavior• Delusions• Moods that show no emotion
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Mental difficulties
• People with schizophrenia often have problems staying on task or paying attention
• Their thoughts can also jump around causing them to become confused or disoriented
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Symptoms can vary among patients
• Paranoid patients often fell as if there life and family are in jeopardy, are anxious and and sometimes angry
• Disorganized patients often seem childlike and have difficulties expressing their emotions or thoughts
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Varying Symptoms
• Catatonic patients are in a constant period of unrest, they also have rigid bodies and facial expressions and can be less responsive than normal.
• Some patients might have symptoms of all these types of patients
• Residual Types have some of these symptoms but not as bad as a full blown schizophrenic
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Signs of Schizophrenia
• There is no medical test that for sure test for schizophrenia but there are some signs that they look at
• Family and genetic History• Developmental background• Response to medication• Changes in behavior due to illness
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Treatment
• When ever someone has a episode, they should stay in a hospital that can provide them the basic needs under supervision
• There are some medications for it, but they suppress the symptoms and have many negative side effects( Sedation and weight gain)
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Schizophrenia
• Many people deal with schizophrenia through family and support groups
• Many people have been able to be able to control many of their symptoms after years of having the illness.
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Living with it
• My name is Rylan Baker and I am a paranoid schizophrenic
• I was born with it but it didn’t really set in til my second year of grad school
• My psychologist thinks that the high stress of my school work made the illness come on earlier
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What I have
• I am a paranoid schizophrenic• I suffer from disillusions and auditory and
visual hallucinations• I did not know what I had until I was observed
talking in a room by myself
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Hallucinations
• I believed that I was secretly working for The Company, an agency that secretly was controlling many of the things that where going on in our country
• Everything was going well until I crossed them and went on the run, I ran across the country believing someone was after me when it was all in my head
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Effects on Family
• I had been married for one year when I was diagnosed with schizophrenia
• My wife was scared to death when I would wake her up in the middle of the night with a gun saying that the Company was coming for us
• I almost shot my neighbor when he came over to borrow some milk from my wife
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Family
• My wife and children had to learn to deal with my hallucinations and how to deal with me when they happened
• After the medications took hold I was able to do things with my kids because I was so sedated and lethargic
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The medication
• I took the pills that my psychiatrist gave me so my wife wouldn’t be scared to live in the same house with me
• The pills stopped some of my visual hallucinations but they made be heavily sedated and I gained thirty pounds in two months
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Aftermath
• After fighting schizophrenia for over twenty years I have been somewhat able to controll it
• I was able to go back to work and became somewhat able to discern between real life and hallucinations
• Schizophrenia was by far the hardest thing ive ever had to deal with in my life
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Disclaimer
• This is a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a psychological ailment.For questions about this blog project or its content please email the teacher Chris Jocham at [email protected]