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xBlackxRangerx: 2 months ago via iPhone

Better explanation of schizophrenia?

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Cjkenkel: 2 months ago

Schizophrenia is a psychotic illness lasting at least 6 months in length and characterized by at least two of the following: hallucinations, delusions, grossly disorganized speech, grossly disorganized behavior or prominent negative symptoms (affective flattening, alogia, or avolition). You only need one criteria if the delusions are bizarre (aliens are living in my basement, radio transmitter in my teeth), voices are talking back and forth or voices are doing a running commentary on your behavior. These symptoms have to cause dysfunction in your life.
In simple terms, schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness in which people have difficulty with their ability to perceive reality. They may see/hear things that are not really there, they may believe strange things despite evidence to the contrary (think they have transmitter in their teeth despite x-ray proving not), and think in ways that you would believe to be confused, irrational and illogical.

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Cjkenkel: 2 months ago

There are different types of schizophrenia depending on what symptoms are most prominent. Generally speaking, symptoms of schizophrenia present first between the ages of 17-35 with men getting ill, on average, earlier than women. About 1% of the population is effected and there are various theories, including possible viral exposure at birth or genetic transmission, for why it occurs. The predominant theory at this time is that it is a brain illness caused by relative excesses or deficiencies (depending on the part of the brain) of a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Treatment at this time is predominantly medication, a group called antipsychotics. Many people do not believe they have a problem and thus are not compliant, causing them to get sick repeatedly despite improvements in symptoms while on meds. Despite popular misconceptions people with schizophrenia are not more violent than the general population though their illness is such that they have a higher rate of suicide that the average person.

Not every person who has problems with perception of reality has schizophrenia. Medical problems, substance intoxication and other mental illness can have symptoms like schizophrenia and have to be ruled out before that diagnosis can be made. For that reason, people that are suspected to have that illness should be seen by a psychiatrist.

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AnnieZhu: 2 months ago

That's the garbage produced by the researches on the wrong direction, which has never saved anyone.

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pandapower: 2 months ago via iPhone

Cjkenkel- excellent answer!
Anniezu-WTF???

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Cjkenkel: 2 months ago

Thank you panda!

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xBlackxRangerx: 2 months ago via iPhone

I haven't been diagnosed, dad doesn't believe me he thinks it's my bipolarness. Thanks for the better explanation man :) have a good one

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milburdine: 2 months ago via Android

Your head is wired wrong.You either think you're Jesus or everybody is out to get you.

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AnnieZhu: 2 months ago

Is it too wired that only one is out trying to get you? I have this kind of feeling and I hope someone could help to make this one speak or he could start to speak later. I believe that the wired feeling in the head will have to leave if everyone is really helpful to others.

Don't you think when nobody is willing to help, it means that our society is dangerous and troubles could be out to get us anytime?

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milburdine: 2 months ago via Android

I think we all have to look out for each other.

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AnnieZhu: 2 months ago

That's the problem, and do you think it is right for us all to look out for each other? Will it make schizophrenia very hard to get healed? What do you think of the result when we can get closer to each other and help each other if one of us only suffer "schizophrenia" and there are no real hurts and real lose at all?

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AnnieZhu: 2 months ago | Last edited at 10:58PM on 3/3/2013

I believe Human beings and their society should look like a whole, and there should not be so many conflicts between individuals and their society.

I think schizophrenia is a serious cognition problem, I have told that it should not be an illness of individual, but it has to be the cognition problem of individual from the beginning. We had this kind of cognition problem, and then we start to have a lot troubles in our society, and then we have some more serious cognition problems because of the troubles. A lot of people have died during the conflicts of all these cognition problems. I believe when the cognition problems in our society can be solved, the individuals' "delusion" or "hallucination" could disappear.

I still have to say it should not be an illness of individual, unless we call it an illness of all of us, since we all have to think something wrong and we all have cognition problems.

I am not sure if it is better to call schizophrenia a "cognition problem".

I can't write more here, and you could read more of my opinions via my Ask profile.

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milburdine: 2 months ago via Android

That's interesting.I saw this week on the news that there's a close link between schizophenia,bipolar and autism.At least they're making some advances in understanding this tragic condition.

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AnnieZhu: 2 months ago

I don't know what is there "advances in understanding this tragic condition", but I believe that "schizophrenia" is not difficult to get healed if we change our cognition and set out together to solve the problem in our society.

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pandapower: 2 months ago via iPhone

Make sure you keep the shiny side out next time you make an aluminum foil hat.

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AnnieZhu: 2 months ago

I never enjoy that kind of hat. What I want is only something basic.

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xBlackxRangerx: 2 months ago via iPhone

Thank you for helping me understand :) my dad doesn't believe me he thinks it's my bipolarness :/

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