The symptoms of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a major personality disorder, a distortion of thought. Those who suffer often have the feeling of being controlled by alien forces. They have delusions that they can be extravagant, with impaired perception, abnormal affect unrelated to the situation and understand autism as insulation.
The deterioration of mental function in these patients has reached a degree which markedly interferes with their ability to meet some ordinary demands of life and maintain adequate contact with reality. The psychotic does not live in this world (dissociation between reality and their world), since there is a denial of reality unconsciously. He is unaware of their disease.
Schizophrenic cognitive activity is not normal, there are inconsistencies, disconnections and there is great impact on language, for not thinking or reasoning as normal.
The onset of the disease may be acute, i.e. you can start from one moment to another with a crisis delirious, manic state, a depressive with psychotic content or a confused state of dreaming. You can also arise insidiously and progressively.
The average age of onset in men between 15 and 25 years and women aged 25 to 35 years. However, may appear before or after, although it is rare that arises before age 10 or after 50 Amos’s.
Symptoms of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia may have a variety of symptoms. Usually, the disease develops slowly over months or even years. (more…)
