By: Julia Aidan
Submitted: 2011-05-08 10:47:02 | Word Count: 530
People suffering from Schizophrenia are mentally sick which affects their ability to perform their daily activities perfectly in society. Schizophrenia is basically a scary psychic problem which takes the affected individuals from the actual world to a realm of distressing misconception, hallucination, danger and so on. Schizophrenia can be grouped in two types of symptoms, positive symptoms and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms of Schizophrenia comprise disorder in thinking ability, hallucinations, delusions plus immobility that come and go. Negative symptoms of Schizophrenia comprise unusual actions like bare looks, unhappiness, crazy actions, serious voice, bad eating routine, insufficient concentration plus low overall performance level. Most of the negative symptoms may be seen forever in the sufferer. Listed below are few common symptoms of Schizophrenia.
1. Hallucinations: This is the most frequent sign that the affected person suffers because of this mental disorder. The sufferer can feel, touch, hear, smell and see all those things which actually don't exist. Because the brains receptive nerves become weakened, it responds to false sensory feedback and for that reason the individual suffers from these kinds of mythical things. Further there are 4 types of hallucinations, that are, Auditory hallucination, Olfactory hallucination, Tactile hallucination and Visual hallucination. Individual affected by tactile hallucination feels that many mythical hands are touching him/her or might be many insects are creeping through out his/her entire body. Person suffering from auditory hallucination can talk and hear someone who is non existent. He/she can even hear his/her inner voice. Olfactory hallucination has an effect on the individual on his/her sense of smell whereas individual affected by visual hallucination can view things that are not existent, for e.g. mythical family members or acquaintances with whom he/she talks or perhaps usually spends time.
2. Imprecise thoughts: Imprecise thoughts do not allow the patient to carry out his daily activities in an orderly manner. Moreover, he/she is not able to present himself/herself or speak appropriately. This affects his or her public image thereby impeding his or her routine work.
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3. Sudden moods changes: In such a case, the patient either can feel quite happy or quite unhappy. Thus, this person is unable to maintain a good image in public due to his or her unpredictable behavior.
4. Illusions and delusions: The sufferer imagines illusionary things in the world. Someone affected by delusion believes all the delusions whether or not its true or false.Suppose, if the person suffering from Schizophrenia is not very popular and wealthy and all are aware about this. But the patient thinks other way round plus acts like one of several stars or a well known personality. Or suppose, the sufferer feels that he is spied by some unknown forces around him/her.
5. Confusion: People affected by Schizophrenia are normally confused and unconfident. The person suffering from Schizophrenia is often scared of some type of unknown danger nearing him.
Thus, somebody affected by such symptoms must be quickly rushed to a physician for fast support. Schizophrenia shouldn't be neglected since it can prove to be fatal to the person suffering from this mental disorder.
