12 Facts about Schizophrenia
12 Facts about Schizophrenia
By: Arlene Gentallan
1. Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder. Symptoms may relapse.
2. A schizophrenic person has a higher tendency to commit suicide compared to non-schizophrenic individuals.
3. As a person ages, psychotic symptoms like hallucination and delusion tend to decrease.
4. Contrary to popular beliefs, people afflicted with schizophrenia do not pose danger to other people.
5. Hallucination is one of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Hallucination is seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or feeling something that does not exist.
6. Stressful situations in life can aggravate schizophrenic symptoms.
7. Don't be surprised if symptoms of schizophrenia vary from one person to another.
8. There is no cure for schizophrenia, although there are ways to manage it's symptoms like medication and rehabilitation.
9. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia like delusion and hallucination are more responsive to medication compared to negative symptoms of schizophrenia like apathy and deficit in emotion.
10. Although men and women have an equal chance of being afflicted with this disorder, men usually develop schizophrenia in their early 20s while women usually develop it on their early 30's.
11. Schizophrenia is not a multiple personality disorder.
12. According to the world health organization, schizophrenia affects 21 million people worldwide.
By: Arlene Gentallan
 |
| 12 Facts about Schizophrenia |
1. Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder. Symptoms may relapse.
2. A schizophrenic person has a higher tendency to commit suicide compared to non-schizophrenic individuals.
3. As a person ages, psychotic symptoms like hallucination and delusion tend to decrease.
4. Contrary to popular beliefs, people afflicted with schizophrenia do not pose danger to other people.
5. Hallucination is one of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Hallucination is seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or feeling something that does not exist.
6. Stressful situations in life can aggravate schizophrenic symptoms.
7. Don't be surprised if symptoms of schizophrenia vary from one person to another.
8. There is no cure for schizophrenia, although there are ways to manage it's symptoms like medication and rehabilitation.
9. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia like delusion and hallucination are more responsive to medication compared to negative symptoms of schizophrenia like apathy and deficit in emotion.
10. Although men and women have an equal chance of being afflicted with this disorder, men usually develop schizophrenia in their early 20s while women usually develop it on their early 30's.
11. Schizophrenia is not a multiple personality disorder.
12. According to the world health organization, schizophrenia affects 21 million people worldwide.
