Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a brain disease that disables the action and thinking of a normal human being. It is a psychological disorder where the patient reacts weird and abnormal. Living normal becomes impossible.

Victims of schizophrenia experience frightening experiences during the course of illness. Such people will hear internal voices inaudible to anyone else around. Such people may think that the other person is trying to read their mind and trying to know what is lying inside their head. A sense of insecurity is developed in people suffering from schizophrenia. Usually the victims are always terrified & worried and withdraw themselves from the normal course of life.

At an estimate more than two million Americans cope with schizophrenia in a given year. Approximately one percent of population develops the disease during their lifetime. Schizophrenia is undoubtedly a peculiar disease with lot of complications. It is verified that no more than one person out of five completely recovers from schizophrenia. Most of the victims have to bear the schizophrenic symptoms throughout their lives.

What Happens With Schizophrenic Victims?
Schizophrenia victims are often disillusioned and are found to stay away from reality. Some of the personality disorder found in schizophrenic patients can be summarized as:

Indistinct Perception of Reality

How schizophrenic victims perceive reality is far different from what a normal person observes around him. Individuals with schizophrenia are distorted in approach. Their sense of approach is bleak and disillusioned. Such people are found to be nervous, anxious, frightened and confused most of the time. They cannot figure out properly what exactly is going around them.

Illusions and Hallucinations
Whenever a person perceives incorrect things but believes in his/her perception with solid faith - such a person is getting hallucinations. This includes hearing or seeing something which is not there. Schizophrenic people see something which is absolutely irrelevant or not happening at all. But for the patients it is a reality. He believes & reacts in accordance to the situation. When stimulus sensation of a person is working fine but he interprets things erroneously - he is under an illusion.

Delusions
When the person develops false personal belief without any concrete reason & evidence - he is getting delusions. Such may happen in severe cases of schizophrenia. Such victims would have delusions that they are been conspired against. They fear of been murdered, cheated and harassed by people around them.

Judgment Disorder
Schizophrenic patients are not able think straight most of the time. Such people are not able to concentrate well enough and gets easily distracted. The logical deduction and rational sequencing of such people is almost absent and they have to make extra efforts to bring things in order. Conversation of such people is often not understandable and the listener is not able to make much sense of what they are speaking. The illogical thought conversion is lowly perceived by other people.

Emotional Expression
Schizophrenic patients are found to develop abnormal emotions that are usually missing from a normal person. Schizophrenic person can become blunt and withdraw oneself socially. He/she starts avoiding contacts with others and when conversion becomes necessary, he/she may have nothing to say but have blank expression only. The character becomes monotonous and it becomes difficult for such person to survive properly under social circumstances. Such people may also start crying without any big reason - unable to control their emotions.

Causes behind Schizophrenia!
Experts state that there is more than one reason which causes Schizophrenia. It may due to after-effect of some chronic disease or may have been hereditary cause. However medical science is still in quest for the exact reason as to what causes Schizophrenia.

One cause for schizophrenia that experts maintain with emphasis is hereditary. It has been verified that schizophrenia runs in a family. People with close relative suffering from schizophrenia increase the chances of developing the disease. In cases of identical twins - the chances of schizophrenia is as much as 50% if either of them is coping with the disease. Parents with schizophrenia also increase the chances of passing the disease to their child. It has to be maintained that genetic cause is one major reason behind schizophrenia.

Moreover schizophrenia may also be due to some severe defect in brain chemical functioning. Some chemical imbalance in brain may rattle the whole thinking and analyzing approach of the patients, leading to schizophrenia.