Schizophrenia Ariana Sanchez

Mental illness So I decided to do my topic on this mental illness that is common Schizophrenia is one of the most common metal illness that a person can get It is said 1 out of 100 people are diagnosed with this illness

What is Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a brain disorder It’s a psychiatric illness that causes strange thinking, strange feelings, and unusual behavior And is most common in men According to research it is hard to say a cause on how you develope it But suggest a combination of brain changes, bio chemical, genetic and environmental factors This is a life long disease that can not be cured but only controlled

Types of Schizophrenia Paranoid : preoccupied with one or more delusions Disorganized : rambling and disorganized behavior Catatonic : abnormal movement, repeating what others say or do, excessive movement, strange postures Undifferentiated : characterized by 2 or more symptoms Residual : withdrawal and not speaking

Brain in schizophrenia This is some of areas of the brain that are effected by schizophrenia They operate abnormal Frontal lobe : problem solving and reasoning Limbic system : emotion Hippocampus : memory formation Occipital lobe: information about the visual world. Auditory system: hear and speech Basal ganglia : emotions and movement

Symptoms Withdrawn and increased isolation Severe anxiety and fearfulness Extreme moodiness Confused thinking Confusing television and dreams from reality Unusual or bizarre thoughts and ideas Seeing things and hearing voices which are not real Difficulty relating to peers and keeping friends Ideas that people are out to get them or talking about them

Treatment What psychiatrics' provide is an antipsychotic medication Side effects include dizziness or sleepiness, weight gain and increased chance of diabetes Besides medication patients with this illness usually have to do therapy as well as family therapy What therapy does is help them adjust to the community Schizophrenia takes a lifetime to treat and if a patient wants to be successful they would need therapy, medication, and support of family and people around them

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