Schizophrenia
Is one of the mental or mental illnesses that affect humans, which is one of the most serious and common mental illness, which is classified as mental illness and not psychological. The schizophrenia is the disruption of the patient’s mental processes, the inability to control emotions or respond to the sensory and mental inputs the patient experiences.
Meaning of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a strong brain disorder that distorts the way the person thinks or behaves, how he expresses himself or how he treats those around him.
Causes of schizophrenia
There is no single direct cause of this disease, and there are several factors that may cause it: the genetic factor, genetic defect in the patient; where the marriage of relatives or the presence of a history of illness of close relatives can affect the severity of these symptoms, Infected with the disease from the family.
Another factor in schizophrenia is the use of medically prescribed or addictive drugs or drugs. These drugs can significantly affect the central nervous system and brain, and have an impact on bad psychological factors and family and social problems.
Symptoms of schizophrenia
There are several symptoms of schizophrenia may be shared by schizophrenic patients; some symptoms appear at times, but not a condition that all symptoms appear on them all the time; schizophrenia symptoms are:
Thought and Language Disorders
This presentation takes several forms, and since language is a mirror of intellectual processes, it expresses schizophrenic disorders in schizophrenic patients. Of these formats:
- Content poverty : The language of people suffering from this disease has few meanings because of the lack of logical associations in their language, the listener does not understand what they want specifically.
- New language : The patient uses new vocabulary, combines two or more words, or uses words that are known to have a new style. This results from the inability of the person to express what he wants to resort to new words.
- Ringing : Is a property characterized by the pattern of words in the patient; where the use of words have a similar rhythm regardless of whether they are interrelated or meaningful or not, the intellectual coherence of the patient in the voices of words and not their meanings.
- Salat of words : Where the language is completely disjointed, and the listener can not understand the person based on them, and lose the words of the patient value communicative with those around him, and this stage of the advanced stages of the disease.
Cognitive disorders
People with schizophrenia have obvious cognitive problems, unable to estimate sizes, estimate time, distinguish trends or places, and suffer from two major types of disorders:
- The breakdown of selective attention , So that the patient can not choose what he wants to read or see or hear, and attention to everything. Some researchers tend to attribute most of the symptoms of schizophrenia.
- Hallows These are mental images that are very strong and the patient believes that he is testing them and that they are reality and reality. He imagines the sounds and the pictures and even imagines sniffing or touching these preparations. The patient does not know whether he is in his mind only or that everyone sees what he sees.
Mood disorders and emotions
Do not show the patient with schizophrenia describe what is wandering in his soul; he can not surround him to analyze facial expressions and read its features, his face shows him inertia and indifference, and his behavior is characterized by superficiality and indifference, and his responses to him around is not balanced and harmonious, he may laugh, for example if tortured or crying Without cause, or may move from one case to another quickly; the patient with schizophrenia has emotional disintegration and emotional fluctuation, which is characteristic of it.
Behavioral motor disorders
One of the most obvious motor behaviors in schizophrenic patients is typical behavior or locomotor repetition. The patient performs meaningless actions such as shaking the head, rotating hands for hours, and also the great flexibility or so-called “wax flexibility”. The patient moves his bones and muscles so gently , And the most severe type is inertia or “probabilistic stability” where it is possible to remain on one foot without moving for hours. The latter type is frenzy and excitement, as the movement of the patient increases, and he breaks things and attacks others.
Social withdrawal
People with schizophrenia gradually withdraw from the environment and those around them. What separates them from the isolated natural person is that the person with schizophrenia is rarely recently short with those around him or friends; he treats as if there are no others around him. In advanced cases, And between others and avoids looking at them directly.
Treatment of schizophrenia
The methods of treating schizophrenia are as follows:
- Drug therapy.
- Psychotherapy.
- Group therapy.
- Electrotherapy.