Know the common symptoms of Schizophrenia

People suffering from Schizophrenia are mentally sick which affects their ability to perform their daily activities perfectly in society. Schizophrenia is generally a scary psychic disorder that can take the affected individuals from the actual world to a world of frightening misconception, hallucination, risk etc. Schizophrenia can be grouped in two types of symptoms, positive symptoms and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms of Schizophrenia involve problem in thinking capacity, hallucinations, delusions and immobility that come and go. Negative symptoms of Schizophrenia involve abnormal behavior for instance blank looks, unhappiness, aggressive behavior, serious speech, ill eating habits, insufficient concentration and low functionality level. Most of the negative symptoms may be seen forever in the sufferer. Listed below are few common symptoms of Schizophrenia.

1. Hallucinations: This is the most typical symptom that the patient suffers caused by this mental disorder. The patient can feel, see, smell, touch and hear voices that are actually non existent in this world. Since the brains receptive nerves get lazy, it reacts to fake sensory input and that is why the individual is experiencing this kind of imaginary issues. Further there are 4 types of hallucinations, that are, Auditory hallucination, Olfactory hallucination, Tactile hallucination and Visual hallucination. Individual suffering from tactile hallucination believes that some imaginary hands are touching him/her or probably some pesky insects are creeping all over his/her entire body. Person suffering from auditory hallucination can talk and hear someone who is non existent. The sufferer can also listen to their own inner voice. Olfactory hallucination affects the individual on his/her sense of smell while individual suffering from visual hallucination can find things that are not existent, for e.g. imaginary relatives or acquaintances with whom he/she speaks or perhaps usually spends time.
2. Imprecise thoughts: With this disorder, the sufferer is not able to perform or execute his thinking in an organized way. Moreover, he/she is not in a position to present himself/herself or speak properly. Thus, it not only hinders the patient's daily tasks but also create a wrong image in the society.
3. Sudden moods changes: In such a case, the patient either feels very pleased or very unhappy. Since the patient's mood and behavior is unpredictable, he or she is not able to have a good image in the society.
4. Illusions and delusions: The sufferer imagines illusionary things in the world. A person suffering from delusion believes all the delusions whether or not its correct or false.For instance, a patient suffering from Schizophrenia is actually poor and not well known and everyone around know this. But the patient believes other way round and behaves like one of several stars or a popular personality. Or suppose, the sufferer feels that he is spied by some unknown forces around him/her.
5. Confusion: People suffering from Schizophrenia are generally baffled and unconfident. The person suffering from Schizophrenia is often scared of some type of unknown danger nearing him.

Hence, a person suffering from these symptoms must be instantly hurried to a doctor for prompt help. The person suffering from Schizophrenia should be treated immediately since it may lead him to critical conditions.

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Author (JamieHanson). Submitted on Sat, 7 May 2011 Time: 2:55 PM

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