Psychotic Disorder
Catatonic Schizophrenia Treatment
Schizophrenia results from problems with early brain development. The way brain cells communicate with each other through nerve pathways. Complete lack of expressed emotion is sometimes seen, as is an apparent indifference, anhedonia (the lack of pleasure ), and avolition (a lack of motivation). Too many or too few connections in the important pathways of emotional regulation may lead to psychotic symptoms. More specifically, certain areas of the brain that are rich in the chemical dopamine seem to be affected most often in schizophrenia.
Disorganized schizophrenia affects the person's abilities to think logically. A normal thought process recognizes the relevance of a particular thought at that moment, focuses on it and moves to the next in sequence. In disorganized schizophrenia the thoughts crowd the brain together and nothing gets sorted out. Catatonic schizophrenia causes a person to be emotionally flat. A normal emotional response of a particular situation will be missing in this person. He becomes dull, withdrawn and apathetic. There may be a psychomotor problem also involved in catatonic schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a type of Psychotic Disorder, which means that the person often has a difficult time distinguishing between what is real and what is imagined. A person with schizophrenia often experiences psychotic symptoms in the form of delusions or hallucinations. Delusions are beliefs that are not based in reality, whereas hallucinations consist of imagined perceptual experiences, such as hearing imaginary voices or seeing things that are not real.
Disorganized schizophrenia is characterized by confusing thoughts, and disorganized behavior. Delusions are not as prominent with this type of the disease. Communication can be incoherent, emotional reactions are usually blunted or inappropriate, and simple daily activities (such as dressing) are difficult to complete. This kind of schizophrenia has also been called hebephrenic schizophrenia.
Positive symptoms- schizophrenic suffer from hallucinations and delusions. These are the positive symptoms. Hallucinations make a person see things that are not actually there. For instance he may perceive a rope lying nearby as a snake and get petrified of it. In case of delusions, the individual might think himself to be someone, which he is not. He becomes oblivious of the reality and enters his own imaginary world. This can be too fatal at times for the schizophrenic and even for those near him.
Hallucinations are another of the common signs of schizophrenia. Hallucinations are typically in the form of voices heard by the person who is suffering from the disease. The voices come from outside of the schizophrenic's head (this is one of the major differences between multiple personality disorder and schizophrenia). Sometimes the voices do not have a physical point of origin. Sometimes the voices come from something that would not ordinarily be talking and sometimes the voices come from people that only the schizophrenic can see and hear.
A form of schizophrenia that is characterized by a previous diagnosis of schizophrenia, but no longer having any of the prominent psychotic symptoms. There are some remaining symptoms of the disorder however, such as eccentric behavior, emotional blunting, illogical thinking, or social withdrawal.
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