Schizophrenia, a brain disorder that affects the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality and relates to the others.
Schizophrenia is a term given to a complex group of mental disorders. There are four basic subtypes of schizophrenia: paranoid schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia and undifferentiated schizophrenia.
People with schizophrenia may have symptoms involving changes in ability and personality, and they may display different kinds of behavior at different times. Sometimes is very difficult to find out if a person has schizophrenia or not, or if it is suffering from other mental disease. And this is happening because the symptoms can be fewer and they might not be specific.
The most common symptoms of schizophrenia can be grouped into three categories: positive symptoms (delusions or false beliefs and hallucinations- they hear voices), negative symptoms (no interest for life, friends ,work and other activities, no emotions, withdrawal) and disorganized symptoms- memory problems, comunication difficulties, obsessive occupations, etc .
Some kind of symptoms can appear from the beginning and last till the end, others can appear as the desease evolve and some symptomps can be changed with athers. It is important to know scizophrenia's simptoms so we can treat well the desease. Are patients who can harm himself or the others, who think that are persecuted, and this kind of patients need a special treatment and care. Are patiens who aren't dangerous for society, but they live in their world and need help to distinguish the real from the unreal. And some patients have tics, or worse, are patients who can stay fixed in a position for a long period of time (catatonic symptoms).
In present, we treat in fact the symptoms of schizophrenia and not the disease itself. Even the symptoms are large and various, the most of them can be treat well with actual kind of medicatons.
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