SCHIZOPHRENIA

Schizophrenia is the descriptive term for a group of psychotic disorders characterized by :-

Withdrawal from social interactions

Disorganization & fragmentation of perception, thought & emotion.

Gross distortion of reality

Schizophrenia is marked by splitting or disintegration of personality

Symptoms of Schizophrenia

• The individual is :-

Suspicious

Frightened

Cannot trust his own senses nor the motives of other Voices annoy him ,

unpleasant odors choke

him , food has no taste,

continuous fear of his

destruction & becomes

seclusive.

Schizophrenia

Breakdown of perpetual filtering

Disorganization of thought & emotion

Anxiety & Panic

Delusions & Hallucinations

Withdrawal from reality

Positive & Negative symptoms

• Positive symptoms - “ things added to a person that should not be there.”ex- HALLUCINATIONS & small DELUSIONS

• Negative symptoms - “things taken away from a person that should be there.”eg- LACK OF MOTIVATION & SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL.

PREDISPOSING FACTORS

HEREDITY PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTOR

GENERAL SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS

TYPES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

1) SIMPLE TYPE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

•The key symptom is APATHY.• Remain in bed totally inactive•Neglect personal hygiene •Motor responses are sluggish•Lack motivation

2) Hebephrenic type of schizophrenia

• Emotional shallowness• Childish silliness• Bizarre delusions and hallucinations• Giggling spells with alternate outburst of anger• Talking or smiling to themselves or with

imaginary persons

3) Catatonic type of schizophreniaMost common reaction in catatonic

type is ‘CATATONIC STUPOR’ or UNDERACTIVITY.

Mild Catatonic type Extreme Catatonic type

• Expressionless face• Assistance in dressing & eating• Assume peculiar postures

• Bed ridden• Mute, inaccessible & helpless• Unclean & refuse to eat• Appear completely Isolated

4) Paranoid type of schizophrenia

• Suspicious, sensitive & egocentric • Imagine people maltreating them or plotting against

them• Hear enemies calling their names & threatening

them• They see faces at night, taste poison in food etc.

TREATMENT of SCHIZOPHRENIA

CHEMOTHERAPY PSYCHOSOCIAL COMMUNITY

APPROACH TREATMENT

Major Anti Anti anxiety outpatient socio

Tranquilizers depressants drugs clinics therapy

Forms of psychotherapy

CONCLUSION

BY Vandana CecilB.A. III