Is it a psychological disease ? Can a schizophrenic patient be cured?
Read this:
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml
Medications can keep the symptoms bearable for the patient.
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Schizophrenia is a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
Some of the symptom characteristic of Schizophrenia are:
1. Delusions,
2. Hallucinations,
3. Disorganized speech,
4 Disorganized behavior
However, the symptom of Schizophrenia vary dramatically from person to person, both in pattern and severity.
Thank you, Mahesh for the valuable interesting answer. Best regards. Hazim.
Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that interferes with person ability to think clearly, manage emotions, make decisions, and relate to others. Schizophrenic people usually loses touch with reality.
The special feature of schizophrenia include both positive and negative symptoms. The positive symptoms appear to reflect an excess of distortions of normal functions. It include exaggeration of inferential thinking (delusions), language and communication (disorganized speech) and behavioural monitoring (grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviour). The negative symptoms of the disorder account for a substantial degree of the morbidity associated with the disorder. The main negative symptoms are affective flattening; alogia (poverty of speech) and avolition (inability to initiate and persist in goal directed activities).
Dear Dr. Hazim Sir,
Please also have a look at these useful links and PDF attachments.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6dd3/9102e666d564927e661a4916a74ff3d913b8.pdf
http://www.schizophrenia.com/pdfs/szoverview.pdf
Article Positive and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5f3f/7c7826da66973390889ae042f66814bff2c0.pdf
http://www.clinicalschizophrenia.net/pdfs/Featured_Paper-Spring2014-Boutros.pdf
Regards
Thank you very much, Arvind for the useful links and the pdf attachments. Best regards. Hazim.
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