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Question

Define schizophrenic.

Answer 1

Schizophrenia is a form of psychosis, it gives the person splits in reality taking many forms with the following symptoms
Delusions- convinced of things that are evidently not true, maybe that there are cameras watching her or her food is poisoned or people are following her.

Hallucinations- visual auditory and sensory, so smelling/tasting/feeling/auditory things no one else does, often it is voices, so ask her if she ever hears things that seem to come from no where such as voices.

Withdrawal from society so often becoming less sociable to friends for unknown reasons.

Disorganized speech and behavior, so sentences may not make much sense or she will have a hard time trying to think.

Working things out, holding concentration often become harder than usual.

Random moodswings, schizophrenia is random not periodic like bipolar disorders.

Suspiciousness of things especially friends or partners

Sensitivity emotionally and to things like light

Inappropriate laughter so laughing in times of distress or great sadness or just out of the blue.

If you want text book definitions here they are:

one of the most complex of all mental health disorders; involves a severe, chronic, and disabling disturbance of the brain.

A mental disorder lasting for at least 6 months, including at least 1 month with two or more active-phase symptoms. Active-phase symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior. Schizophrenia is accompanied by marked impairment in social or occupational functioning.

A mental illness in which the person suffers from distorted thinking, hallucinations, and a reduced ability to feel normal emotions.

the most chronic and disabling of the severe mental disorders. Typically develops in the late teens or early twenties. The overt symptoms are hallucinations (hearing voices, seeing visions), delusions (false beliefs about commonly held views of reality) and bizarre thought patterns. These are the positive symptoms that typically lead to psychiatric treatment and hospitalization. ...

Answer 2

A person who is schizophrenic has a mental illness that makes it difficult for them to make sense of the world in the way other people do.

Some schizophrenic people hear voices that aren't real, but don't always know whether or not they're real. When a person hears things or sees things that seem real to them, but nobody else can hear or see them, it's called a "hallucination". (Except if it happens when you're asleep -- that's a dream or a nightmare, and it's perfectly normal.)

Some kind of schizophrenic people don't necessarily have hallucinations, but they believe in patterns and explanations that don't make sense to other people. For example, they might think that their thoughts are being controlled by aliens, or they might believe that the TV is talking directly to them.

For a schizophrenic person, it can feel very scary or frustrating when the world doesn't make sense, or it makes sense in a way that nobody else sees or agrees with. It's often hard for schizophrenic people to do well at school or work, or to trust people, or to have close friendships. A lot of schizophrenic people keep to themselves and become lonely or depressed or upset.

Answer 3

A schizophrenic is a person who sometimes can't tell the difference between what is real and what is fantasy. They hear voices. They may see things that are not really there. They have moments when they think they know all about everything--even more than their doctors.

Answer 4

schizophrenia means "split mind" it is a disorder of the brain that disturbs or messes up the person's thoughts and affects the way things seem to them. Also affects emotional and social processes. Some are born with it and some people develop it later in life. There are four main types of and is mostly caused by high levels of the chemical in the brain called dopamine. One of the main problems people with this disorder have is they take medication and it starts to help them and soon they start to think that their is nothing wrong with them and they stop taking the medicine and it starts all over again. Because really no one wants to admit to themselves or to anyone else that they have a problem like this. They are also most of the time very very intelligent people.

Answer 5

It's a form of sickness of the mind that causes people to act foolishly and sometimes laugh for no reason at all. They sometimes believe in things and situations that aren't true...sort of like make believe, but to them it is real. They sometimes revert to being very childish and sometimes are mean. The doctors aren't certain as to all the reasons that cause this illness of the mind to occur but suspect that it has to do with an imbalance in one or more of the over 2000 chemicals secreted in the brain for proper functioning. Many of these chemical molecules are so complex that the doctors haven't figured out what they do yet.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

A schizophrenic is like a bunch of different people all in one body...only one person can be in control at a time, so they all take turns controlling the one body.

Answer 8

you know when you think to yourself about something and you can hear your own voice in your head? well a schizophrenic hears alot of different voices in their head. and that is a bad thing.

Answer 9

People with schizophrenia hear voices inside their heads. They think they hear people who aren't really there. It can be a scary experience, both for the person hearing the voices and also for anybody else who happens to be around.

A person with schizophrenia is NOT crazy. He/she has an illness--not one that you can catch, but one that is serious and should be treated by a doctor.

Answer 10

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder where the person things they are seeing things that are not really there and hears things that are not really there. Like Russell Crow in "a beautiful mind"