Schizophrenia: A Brain Disease
Being a brain disease the effects it has on the patient are very drastic. Even daily things become difficult or like in the case of personal hygiene unmanageable and neglected. The behavior of the patient changes drastically, the person becoming very irrational and chaotic. The brain being in this way affected, thinking , feeling, understanding and consciousness itself are altered in very different and negative ways. Thinking coherently, expressing emotions appropriately and interacting with others normally becomes a seriously difficult task for patients. Family life is also affected, members having now to provide and care for the sick person to. On an emotional level they sometimes become distressed and overwhelmed by this, on top of witch they have
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One of the most defining features of schizophrenia is psychosis. This happens when the chronicle ill patient losses touch with reality ( the ability to differentiate between real and imaginary things is damaged). It is not uncommon for schizophrenia patients to suffer from hallucinations or even delusions; most often in the cases of hallucinations we have the hearing of voices and for delusions the impression that someone or something wants to heart them. When trying to correct this involuntary actions in the patient, it has been found that the treatment is met with resistance and defensiveness.
In the case of schizophrenic patients the brain is
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This loss of reality is very difficult for
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