Essays on Schizophrenia

Social anxiety disorder is also known as social phobia. This state of an individual is an extreme case of the individual feeling pressure and being fearful of certain social situations. Some individuals are not confident in group settings, and constantly fear of being evaluated. Mostly this state occurs when the individual is faced with a new or novel situation. It is not uncommon to feel anxious about a new situation but some people fear it to a very large degree; hence, being a victim of the social anxiety disorder. Individuals may be so frightened of facing these new situations Continue reading...

More often than not, individuals exhibiting psychotic symptoms may be diagnosed as having a SUD (Substance Use Disorder) (American Psychiatric Association, 2009). Disentangling the link between psychotic disorders and Substance Use Disorder is a common diagnostic challenge for researchers within community settings and clinicians within treatment settings (Miner, 2007).
For diagnosis of individuals with psychotic symptoms and SUDs, a manual of diagnostic and statistical of mental disorders, attempts to make a distinction between psychotic disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) and SUDs (like dementias and delirium). Most SUDs are short lived and can be resolved with sustained abstinence. However, Continue reading...

Psychosis is a mental disorder that leads to extreme impairment of the brain. It makes a person have difficulties in communicating, and it influences the performance of the individual. This condition occurs because of many factors. It occurs due to use of drugs like cannabis, methamphetamine and cocaine. The condition can arise because of a mental disorder that a person has. The condition results to hallucinations and delusions. Delusions refer to false, strange and an irrational belief held by a person. The members of society do not accept the belief. Hallucinations refer sensory perception that occurs in the absence Continue reading...

Schizophrenia is a very serious mental illness that is characterized by serious disturbance in the sufferer’s thoughts, perception, behavior and even imagination and perception. When looking at it critically, schizophrenia happens to be an umbrella diagnosis that covers several mental disorders. But what contribute most to this condition are the depressive and anxiety disorders which people experience in everyday life (Jones & Buckley 2006). Some of the common symptoms include hearing of internal voices, believing that other people might harm the sufferer and this will always leave the patient fearful and very much withdrawn. According to the Substance Abuse Continue reading...

Arguably, the best approach to getting treatment for Schizophrenia is getting the correct diagnosis. Schizophrenia is usually characterized by profound disruption both in the emotional and cognition facets, thus affecting the most fundamental personal attributes such as thought, perception, language and a sense of self. In America, effective diagnosis of Schizophrenia is made possible through the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, which is popularly abbreviated as DSM-V. This tool serves as the universal authority for the various psychiatric diagnosis and treatment recommendations.
In most cases, the individual diagnosed with Schizophrenia will experience Continue reading...

A phobia is an extreme fear that will not go away. People may develop a phobia after having a bad encounter with a certain situation, object or activity. Therefore, trypanophobia is an extreme fear of needles. The number of people suffering from trypanophobia is increasing significantly since the people with this condition refuse to seek help from a doctor. People with needle phobias constantly experience panic attacks, lightheadedness, or fainting when they come across two needles. This fear prevents many people from obtaining required vaccinations, blood tests and other medical care, which make it a serious issue. Therefore, the Continue reading...

The Beautiful Mind presents schizophrenia as a form of madness that causes an individual to lose the ability to differentiate between real and imagined situations. In the movie, John Nash, a brilliant mathematician loses his sanity to schizophrenic hallucinations. Another negative symptom of schizophrenia is paranoia. Nash repeatedly attacks several people who try to help him while he is engrossed in one of his episodes. He punches Dr Rosen as he attempts to flee from imaginary soviet secret agents. He accidentally knocks his wife Alicia down together with his son as he tries to save them from Parcher an Continue reading...

When a person is diagnosed having a psychotic disorder, especially schizophrenia, the first choice of therapy is to give antipsychotic drugs. Of course, for decades the antipsychotics have helped the schizophrenics to come out of distress and disability (Frank, E. & Judge, R. (2001). It is one of the reliable methods of controlling the chronic and distressing symptoms of schizophrenia. But it has various challenges associated with it. The side effects, aversion of the patients to take medications, drug resistance, etc. are issues that challenge the therapy by antipsychotics. A metanalysis is carried out to find out the current status Continue reading...

The movie A Beautiful Mind is about Nobel laureate John Nash, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. In this movie, directed by Ron Howard, the viewer follows the life of a brilliant mathematician and economist. The movie shows many symptoms of this condition, especially the positive ones. On display are also the difficulties that this illness represents both at a personal and at a social level, including for the family. Last, one may see possible treatments for this disease, including electroshock therapy and disability management techniques and their effects. This film, while entertaining and being aesthetically pleasing, also shows the Continue reading...

Abstract

In the stories of young people with schizophrenia, relevant themes exist which connect their seemingly disparate lives. Many would say that schizophrenia is a condition with symptoms such as paranoia and existential crisis. However, no two schizophrenic cases are alike and each person is affected very differently as they may experience negative and, or positive symptoms. Some people hear voices telling them to kill themselves or harm others, while others claim they can communicate with God, animals, or natural forces such as the sun. The latter examples, although hard to believe, must be viewed as positive symptoms. In order Continue reading...

Postpartum disorders may occur in some women at the time of giving birth .The disorders disastrously influence the mental health status of women. In the period of postpartum, more than 84% of women suffer from mood disturbances. Postpartum illness is broadly classified into three groups that include postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and postpartum blues. Of the three mental conditions, postpartum psychosis is very severe while postpartum blues is very mild.
Postpartum blues are normal reactions experienced by most mothers at childbirth. This condition is characterized by mood fluctuations. Mothers suffering from the blues often experience mood liability, irritability, tearfulness Continue reading...

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

This is a case study of Joseph. Joseph is a twenty five year old American male. There are more than 25 million people who are affected by schizophrenia. There is suspicion and uncertainty with regards to the causal attributes of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that has multiple manifestations. It is hard enough to try to understand the cognitive processes of as healthful person, let alone understand the cognitive processes someone who is manifesting symptoms of schizophrenia. Imagine looking at a person who is sitting on a park bench pretending to argue with someone while sitting on the Continue reading...

A myriad of baffling questions foster educated inquiries regarding the types of causes for schizophrenia, in terms of neurological foundations. Psychiatry and neuropsychological research continues to engage professionals in exploring the role of the frontal lobes in schizophrenia. While more questions persist than answers, it appears that the elements of memory and behavior correlate in ways that bond to either a region or function that is important in the disorder. According to medical researcher, Dr. Raphael Bonelli (2007) “schizophrenia, and mood disorders may result from disturbances that have a direct or indirect impact on the integrity or functioning of” Continue reading...

Introduction

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that makes a patient fail to establish between real and unreal things in the surrounding. Schizophrenic patients experience hallucination that makes them hear sounds and voices that other people cannot hear. In most cases, schizophrenic patients are aggressive because they think that people close to them influence their way of thinking. Various scholars have written much about this mental condition; however, most of these elite learners dealt with various aspect of the mental condition. This paper seeks to conduct an analysis of schizophrenia, which include the theoretical perspectives, research methods used to analyze Continue reading...

According to National Institute of Mental Health, schizophrenia is a constant, severe, and immobilizing brain disorder. Schizophrenic people may hear voices that others do not. They think that people have the power to read and control their minds or are involved in plotting against them. They may also converse in a nonsensical manner. They may remain in a standing or sitting position without talking or making movements. In many cases, schizophrenic people appear to have a perfect personality until they start sharing their thoughts with others. This brain disorder also affects the family members and society. This is because Continue reading...

This article is based on the research done by Joseph Wolpe attempting to understand the root of a type of Neuroses in the form of an intense Phobia. The article states that phobia’s were original thought to be the result of an individual experiencing an extreme childhood trauma that linked intense irrational fear to an object or act. They were treated by a process known as psychoanalysis, in which the patient worked through the source of the fear with a therapist. A phobia goes far beyond the rational fear of being afraid for your safety due to, for Continue reading...

Steven Lopez book titled The Soloist gives a detailed story of the lives of Steve Lopez, a newspaper columnist and Nathaniel Ayers who is a homeless musical genius. The homeless musician attends Julliard’s but then drops out after some time because of his mental condition and as it turns out he suffers from schizophrenia. Upon meeting him, Lopez seems unsure of the eventual relationship between him and Ayers considering his career and the deplorable condition of Ayers now that he considers featuring him in his column. Perhaps it is because of his work ethics but then, their friendship Continue reading...

In the past, individuals demonstrating the symptoms of schizophrenia were thought to be possessed by demons. Banishment, imprisonment, and torture were the only forms of treatment available. Fear of the perceived possession dictated responses to the behavior. The inappropriate ideas, hallucinations, and strange behavior remains as difficult to understand today as it was in medieval times.
The medical profession struggles to address the presence of schizophrenia in society. McGrath, Saha, Chant, and Welham (2008) state the psychopathology affects 1% of the worldwide population and incurs substantial costs to families, society, and the patient. In addition, evidence points to a Continue reading...

Ms fielding that has erratic behavioral patterns that precede her losing her job and the demise of her father. She has a brief psychotherapy due to living away from her family as she concedes of experiencing stress since she lost her job three months ago. She attributes her job loss to a sluggish economy while she denies having mood disturbance as she answers no to psychotic symptoms. It is possible that Fielding could be suffering from a brief psychotic disorder. The diagnostic criteria include (1) delusions, hallucinations that have eventual full return to premorbid level of functioning. (3) A Continue reading...

Critical reviews of a recent Sci-fi film:

A science fiction film (Sci-fi) is a movie that encompasses an extreme sense of science and imaginary picture design. At most, they use advanced technology For Example devices, robots, and spacecraft assumed to grace the world in the future. A number of Science fiction films tend to travel in the future, outer space or introduce supernatural beings from other planets. This paper will review the movie ‘the day the earth stood still’ comparing it with the ‘Invasion of the body snatcher’ of 1956 as a Sci-fi film. In addition, the paper intends to connect and explain the themes and Continue reading...

Abstract

The article,” The Relationship between Symptoms and Stress in Adolescents with Schizophrenia” is authored by Heeyoung Lee and Karen Schepp.The two authors are Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners affiliated to the University of Pittsburgh and the Washington University respectively. This article is a quantitative research that aimed at examining the correlation between symptoms and stress in 40 adolescents suffering from schizophrenia. As such this paper aims at critiquing this article and subsequently addressing the gaps that exist in research and subsequently in the knowledge pertaining to schizophrenia in adolescents. In the pursuit to thoroughly critique this article, the paper will Continue reading...

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King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s most revered tragic plays of all time and even deemed by many critics as the most tragic. The play’s tragic end was so harshly condemned by the audiences that other writers wrote alternative “happier” endings that were even played on stage for quite some time. However, the play’s true essence lies in the original end and this was realized by critics and audiences alike and since then has been performed worldwide in its original form (Shakespeare and Halio). It is clear Continue reading...

Psychology of King Lear

Introduction
It is adamant that the psychology of King Lear is quite disturbing in many ways throughout the play. He struggles with his own thoughts of conspicuous thoughts and ravages around the kingdom with a delusion of who his daughter is and who his servant is as well as how his family is implicated in the kingdom and how he sees his family being implicated in the kingdom . Therefore, it is reasonable to say that King Lear is psychotic or, in other words, mad in his own way and since he is aging, the mental illness he suffers from Continue reading...

It goes without saying that the patients suffering from the paranoid personality disorder are mostly characterized by possession of various symptoms, especially the long-term ones, including the suspiciousness of all the surrounding people and a pervasive distrust long-lasting pattern. Every person that suffers from such a disorder will in majority of cases believe that the motives of all the other people are potentially malevolent and suspicious, at least. The patients with the paranoid personality disorder usually tend to assume that all the other people will somehow harm, exploit or deceive them; moreover, for such people there’s no need Continue reading...

Following numerous challenges that were being encountered by member of the black community, it was evident through the approach that was taken in reference to psychiatric analysis that black people were frequently diagnosed with schizophrenia. This act was seen as a move by the American government to discriminate racially against members of the black community. The diagnosis made on black people went unchallenged until question started being raised on this issue. In order to challenge this diagnosis and theory that black people were more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, the book the Protest Psychosis was authored to challenge Continue reading...

Annotated Bibliography on Mental Disorders

Gejam, P. V., Sanders, A. & Kendler K. S. (2011). Genetics of Schizophrenia: New Findings and Challenges. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. Vol. 12: 121-144
These researchers seek to illustrate that molecular genetics has an impact on schizophrenia. The data collected for this study support the idea that there are rare but common genetic variations in schizophrenia spectrum and other disorders. What happens is that there is normally a polygenic inheritance and genetic overlap that causes schizophrenia and other overlapping psychiatric disorders. If only more informative genotyping and re- sequencing programs are used then, these conditions may never Continue reading...

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Mental illnesses are becoming very common these days, and there is reason to worry about his trend. Schizophrenia is one of the illnesses that affect mainly the elderly even though the younger generation is also getting affected. Schizophrenia is a serious problem that has its causes and effects that need to be addressed

Introduction

Schizophrenia spectrum and other mental disorders are characterized by disturbances in the thoughts, imagination, behavior and even perception of the sufferers. These conditions are umbrella diagnoses that cover a variety of mental conditions. There are several people who live with schizophrenia and other conditions, and this Continue reading...

Introduction

Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness characterised by the inability to distinguish between what is real and what is not. People suffering from schizophrenia have a distorted insight about the real world and they may hear or see things that other people around them cannot see. Due to the divide between their imaginary world and the real world, the people suffering from schizophrenia have a hard time carrying out daily tasks. As a result, of their limited ability to perform conventional tasks, people suffering from schizophrenia pull out from the society and act out of unease and panic. This Continue reading...

Introduction to Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a severe mental ailment that affects about one percent of the population worldwide. It is a major mental disorder that inflicts an enormous burden on the victim causing poor quality of life (Jones PB, Barnes TRE, Davies L, et al, 2006). It increases morbidity and mortality (Murray C J and Lopez A D, 1997), disrupts interpersonal connections and upsets family structures and adds substantial economic costs to the society (Freedman R, 2003). Typical symptoms of schizophrenia, include, delusions, disordered thinking, hallucinations, and bizarre speech or behavior.
Though it is very rare to observe the onset of this Continue reading...

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Abstract

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that has affected lives of 1 percent population of the world. It affects the people adversely irrespective of their race, sex and ethnicity. Patients of schizophrenia become helpless and unable to hold a job and rely on others for help. Delusions and hallucinations are common in schizophrenia. It can be genetically transmitted, or a person’s surroundings can be a cause. Psychological factors also contribute in the development of the disease. Continue reading...

Allyson suffers from an anxiety disorder called Social Phobia. Evidently, her fear of interacting with other people has dictated her choice of employment as she works from home.
She has an unreasonable fear of saying something that is embarrassing, which falls under the rubric of "being judged" (BehaveNet, web).
After being prescribed antianxiety medication, she takes more of the prescribed dosage after a short time of being on the medication -- tolerance. As a result, Allyson can be diagnosed with (SUD) Substance Use Disorder characterized which, according to the DSM IV TR is "A disease process characterized by the Continue reading...

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The research deals with the problem of phobias, the types of this irrational behavior, the history of research as well as the key founders and co-researchers who contributed significantly to studying this psychotic disorder. It was also studied whether phobias have relationship with age and gender of those being prone to the disorder. The questions of reasons, symptoms and treatment were given a particular focus in the concluding part of the project. The question of whether phobias are acquired in the course of life or transmitted genetically was scrutinized based on the opinions of world’s finest psychology experts, Continue reading...

Schizophrenia is a dissociative disorder whose victims experience paranoid delusions, auditory and visual hallucinations, and an increased separation from reality. Additional symptoms include strange behaviors, scattered and disorganized thought processes, and a acute sense of social withdrawal and sociopathy. Schizophrenia comes in both acute and chronic forms, varying based o repetition and severity of episodes. Some patients with schizophrenia often experience violent behavior due to feelings of danger or risk, and must alleviate their paranoia and anxiety through these actions. The following outlines some of the major etiology and treatment methods of schizophrenia, as well as the rationales behind Continue reading...

In recent years the perception of the effects of marijuana both positive and negative have been increasingly discussed in the public arena. Many people contest that there are no negative consequences of marijuana use. The fact of the matter is that in order to consider something as having negative consequences, it does not need to directly cause death from an overdose. There are many other avenues, some more direct than others that a drug can cause negative consequences to the user directly in addition to collaterally in the case of family, friends and others in society. It has been Continue reading...

A Beautiful Mind (2001) Directed by Ron Howard
The chosen movie for this review is the movie A Beautiful Mind (2001), directed by Ron Howard. This movie follows the life of a famous mathematician, John Nash, and his endless struggle with schizophrenia. From his college, John Nash had been under the influence of this mental condition which followed him throughout his life, and even when he got the Nobel Prize his imaginary companions were with him. Schizophrenia disconnected him from the reality and the immediate surroundings. As the movie covers the period from the 1947 until the 1994, viewers Continue reading...

Schizophrenia is diagnosed using symptoms that are classified in the groups; positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and disorganized symptoms. The positive symptoms involve the symptoms that normal individuals do not experience but the schizophrenia people experience them. For example, schizophrenia persons tend to have delusions, visual, olfactory, speech, auditory, and gustatory hallucinations. These symptoms are regarded as a manifestation of psychosis (Kneisl C. and Trigoboff E., 2009).
The disorganized symptoms include disorganized thinking. The disorganized thinking is manifested in the speech of the person. The person does not make coherent speeches but jumps from one topic to another randomly, and Continue reading...

Slide 2: Introduction

- Social anxiety or social phobia is one of the most common types of mental disorders.
- It is classified as the third most prevalent psychological disorder in USA, next to depression and alcoholism.
- About 7% of the population in USA is plagued by some form of social phobia.

Slide 3: Overview of Social Anxiety Disorder

What is social anxiety?
- Irrational persistent fear of being judged negatively by others
- Self-consciousness while doing common things in front of others.
- Characterized by increased palpitations, feelings of self-doubt, low self-esteem, embarrassment and inferiority complex.

Types of social anxiety

- Generalized
- Non-generalized

Slide 4: Types of Social Anxiety

Generalized
- Generalized social anxiety is the Continue reading...

Social phobia is a psychological disorder that makes a person a social misfit. The affected person finds it difficult to fit in any social gathering or any activity that involves people. Depending on the environment they have been brought up in, such a person may only feel free around his or her close family members. Social phobia is a common occurrence in the society with millions of people in United States affected. However, the disorder is usually looked at as a personality, and therefore not giving it, the treatment attention required. A low self-esteem is just one of the Continue reading...

Research paper

Introduction
Schizophrenia represents a group of similar mental disorders, in the development of which there are likely to be internally caused (endogenous) pathogenic mechanisms in the form of hereditary anomalies that are not revealed until a certain period of life. Without a needed treatment, continuously progressive course of illness usually ends with the same type of personality changes with disorganization of mental functions (thinking, emotions, psychomotor-behavior in general), with the preservation of memory and previously acquired knowledge.
This mental disorder as a disease has been discovered at the end of XIX century by the famous German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin Continue reading...

1. Is the availability of sex chat group and other sexual material on the internet psychologically healthy or damaging?
Comer (2011) portrays the internet as awash in sexual material that is virtually unavoidable. This material once exposed to the children is harmful. Pornographic material on the internet is the major cause of social problems such as rape and child abuse. According to Comer (2011), sex crimes correlates with the exposure or pornographic material on the internet. Sex offenders such as the pedophiles consume much sexual material. The people that are predisposed to exploit others sexually seek pornographic pleasure. Clinicians Continue reading...