Schizoprenia

Schizophrenia

John F. Nash, the Nobel Prize winner in Economics Science in 1994 presented a mental disorder that marked his life called schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is an illness that doesn’tallow you to difference between the real and the unreal. People with this disorder may present different symptoms. Schizophrenia is often confused with psychosis but they are two different things.Schizophrenia is a severe disabling mental disorder that currently affects 1 percent of the American population. It inhibits you from distinguishing the real world from the unreal world because people whosuffer from this disease may hear voices or see things that other people cannot perceive; this controls their mind. People with schizophrenia may be socially awkward, they have a weird behavior, thethings they say may not make sense and they can be a long time without doing anything. You may think they are fine until they say what they are thinking about. The causes of this illness are notknown, yet, it can be genetic. Schizophrenia develops on the early adulthood in most of the cases. People suffering from the disorder may have a significant life but they still have difficulties in theirsocial skills, in their working life, and have got to rely on other’s help. Individuals with schizophrenia typically have to deal with the symptoms for their entire life. There are three types ofsymptoms; positive, negative, and cognitive. Positive symptoms are when a person has psychotic behaviors and disconnects from reality. They include hallucinations (perceiving things like voices, smells orseeing people that other people don’t perceive), delusions (holding beliefs that are not real), thought disorders (dysfunctional ways of thinking) and movement disorders (repeated or agitated bodymovements). Negative symptoms are when a person disrupts from its normal emotions and they can be mistaken with depression due that it presents lack of pleasure for life, lack of capacity to carry on...