The Causes Of Schizophrenia
About 1% of the world’s population have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder affecting how a person thinks, feels, and acts. The causes of schizophrenia are still unknown although some theories include a person’s genetics and biology. A person with schizophrenia will experience many different signs, symptoms and behaviors, and treatments. Statistically Schizophrenia affects more males than females and symptoms most commonly start to show up in an individual between the ages of 16 and 30.
The first thing most people wonder about is signs and symptoms of schizophrenia. The signs of schizophrenia are different for everyone. One early warning sign of this mental illness is the person seeing or hearing things that are not …show more content…
This can be an onset of typical schizophrenic delusions. Another sign can be the person always feeling watched or not wanting to go anywhere in fear of being watched caused by the thought that something or someone is there when they are not. If someone is speaking or thinking in a peculiar or absurd way, that can also be a sign of schizophrenia. Another common warning sign is a change in personality or withdrawing from social situations. A person with schizophrenia can sometimes get extremely paranoid and have worse delusions in a setting that does not feel completely safe or in their control. The symptoms of schizophrenia are commonly placed into two groups labeled, positive and negative. Although none of the symptoms of schizophrenia are viewed as having a necessarily good effect on someone, positive symptoms are defined as symptoms that are added to the person’s personality and negative symptoms are thought of as taken aways from a person’s personality. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia
The first thing most people wonder about is signs and symptoms of schizophrenia. The signs of schizophrenia are different for everyone. One early warning sign of this mental illness is the person seeing or hearing things that are not …show more content…
This can be an onset of typical schizophrenic delusions. Another sign can be the person always feeling watched or not wanting to go anywhere in fear of being watched caused by the thought that something or someone is there when they are not. If someone is speaking or thinking in a peculiar or absurd way, that can also be a sign of schizophrenia. Another common warning sign is a change in personality or withdrawing from social situations. A person with schizophrenia can sometimes get extremely paranoid and have worse delusions in a setting that does not feel completely safe or in their control. The symptoms of schizophrenia are commonly placed into two groups labeled, positive and negative. Although none of the symptoms of schizophrenia are viewed as having a necessarily good effect on someone, positive symptoms are defined as symptoms that are added to the person’s personality and negative symptoms are thought of as taken aways from a person’s personality. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia