Symptoms of schizophrenia: mind games

The disease, which will be discussed, is certainly on hearing. But few know exactly how it manifests itself in those who prefer the games of the mind of reality. Yes, it's about schizophrenia. Not everyone watched the movie "Mind Games" about the Nobel laureate, who suffered from this mental illness. Even to get acquainted with the main signs of schizophrenia, you can read the book "The Night is Gentle" by Fitzgerald. The film is about a man, in a book - about a woman. Men get sick more often and the forecast for them is worse.

Symptoms of schizophrenia are divided into three large groups: negative, positive and cognitive. On one basis, no one diagnoses, in addition, some of them are also characteristic for other conditions, for example, for depression or anxiety disorder.

Negative are not directly related to the prognosis of the disease. However, they are really very undesirable, because it is extremely difficult to eliminate them. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are such signs, which mean the absence of qualities characteristic of healthy people. For example, a person ceases to set goals for himself at work and school, his emotions and desire to communicate in others disappear, the sense of necessity for personal hygiene disappears, a person can stop regularly preparing for himself and forgetting to eat.

Positive symptoms of schizophrenia are also not particularly good. The name means that the patient has symptoms that the healthy do not have. For example, hallucinations. Often the patient hears what other people do not hear, sometimes they are voices, sometimes just noise. Voices can discuss the personality of the patient, his actions, give advice. And the person perceives them as something alien to themselves, and not their inner voice. In some cases, there are visual hallucinations. Sometimes patients also feel or smell something that is not.

This behavior suggests an obsession. One priest, working in a psychiatric hospital, told that hallucinations are lost when reading defensive prayers from demons. So you can not write off everything on the violation of metabolic processes in the brain, this may not be the main cause of schizophrenia. After all, all believers recognize that there is an invisible world that can influence us spiritually.

However, let's return to positive symptoms. So, in addition to hallucinations, the patients are characterized by delusional beliefs. For example, the fact that they have some kind of super-abilities. Some people think that the government or the police really want to harm them.

Quite often there are strangenesses in behavior and emotional expression. A person can not adequately and emotionally react in time. There are bizarre movements that can not be explained by illnesses of the body. Patients at the same time describe their feelings as unusual, sometimes they grimace.

Positive symptoms usually start to appear after the negative. They can lead to an episode of psychosis. In psychosis, a person becomes incapable of distinguishing between reality and imagination. This requires hospitalization.

Cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia combine cognitive dysfunction and some others. The patient begins to have problems with memory, it is difficult for him to answer open questions and make decisions, often do not want to finish his idea. There is also a certain disconnectedness in thinking. In addition, patients come up with new words, this is not the introduction of terms in science, but often an illogical and incomprehensible word creation.

The causes of schizophrenia are usually associated with heredity. We are promised that soon it will be possible to buy a drug test, smear it with saliva and see if we are predisposed to this disease. However, not everything is so simple, often genes are not guilty, but violations of the reading of genetic information. Although not all, predisposed to the disease, fall ill. Often the episode begins after severe stress or lifestyle changes. However, the reasons for each individual case are a mystery.