Schizophrenia

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These people spend lomg periods of time weeks, months, and occasionally years motionless or in other words "dead to the world" (Hamilton 120). When they do snaqp out of their catatomic state they are extremly hostile and aggressive. Last is paranoid which is characterized by the false beliefs or delusions the person has. For example the thought that the FBI planted a secret microchip in their brain and is controlling them. Alomg with these specific types of are some symptoms that pertain to all schizophrenics.
Firstoff, all people diagnosed with have perceptual difficulties, that is, they sufer from hallucinations. A hallucination is a false sensory experience, such as seeing things, hearing things, and even feeling things that aren’t really there. Hallucinatioms have a compelling sense of reality to the persons who suffer from them. Auditory hallucinationsare by far the most common form of hallucinatiom in . They are so characteristic of the disease that a person with true ...

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makes so hard to understand and frighteming is the faxt that all these symptoms can show up more in one person and less in another. That is also what makes so hard to diagnose.
The world is in the midst of an explosion of knowledge about the causes of schizophrenia. There has always been theories about the causes, but now as the knowledgeaccumulates the theories will become fewer and fewer. Almost all of thisnew knowledge about the causes is a product of the last ten years, and the next ten years promise to increase our under standing evenfurther.

There are still several theories about the causes of schizophrenia, and they have to do with what we now know about the physical aspects ...

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