<aside> 💡 You wouldn’t treat someone with diabetes with stigma. It’s just an imbalance of chemicals in an organ. The same applies to schizophrenia there’s an imbalance of chemicals in an organ.
It is human nature to fear what we don’t understand. So seek understanding.
This site is a space for others to find resources and for me to "learn in public". It's constantly being updated. Thanks for visiting :)
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First, schizophrenia is NOT a split personality disorder. It's a split from reality, with fragmented thinking.
1 in every 100 people have the syndrome. That's +78 million people.
It's a syndrome(a set of medical signs and symptoms which are correlated with each other). People experience different symptoms. It's a spectrum on the DMS(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) scale, the resource many psychiatrists use for classifying illnesses.
Symptoms can be categorized into 2 buckets: Negative symptoms, those the general population may experience to a degree and Positive symptoms, those that the general population doesn't experience**.**
delusions (affecting 4/5 ppl w/ schizophrenia)
→of control
→ of reference (thinking ppl are sending u messages)
disorganised speech
disorganised behaviour
→ hallucinations
→ cationic behaviour
Loss of emotions
Loss of interest
Flat affect- lack of response
Aloga - lack of context to speech
Avolation- decrease in motivation to complete goals
Cognitive symptoms (More subtle)
Difficulty in Memory
Difficulty in Understanding
Difficulty in Learning
Prodomoal
Withdrawal (maybe mistaken as depression)
Active
Sever symptoms
Residual
Experience more subtle cognitive