how do you know if someone is skitzophrenic?

Question

what are the signs of skitzophrenia? is it possible to know if someone is skitzophernic without psychoanalysing them? basically, does anyone know anything about it?

Answer 1

schizophrenia is really a broad general category of mental illnesses. Some forms of schizophrenia have physical causes, i.e. malformation of the brain, some have chemical causes, i.e. too much or too little of crucial brain chemicals, some are purely psychological.

Many people associate schizophrenia with split or dual personalities. Although this is sometimes an associated symptom, it is not technically the definition of schizophrenia. If it were, then it would be MUCH easier to diagnose.

For instance, EVERY member of the Bush administration has split personalities. They say one thing one day, then say the opposite on another. The funny thing is, we have them on video tape making these mutually exclusive opposite statements, and they apparently don't Even know they are lying. What's worse, the American media never reports on these glaring contradictions and the populace doesn't care indicating a pervasive form of public apathetic schizophrenia.

Answer 2

First he will offer you a mars bar and then he'll kill you for eating it LOL Seriously though, a schitzophrenic will be two (or more) completely opposite people. He / she will be a warm, loving person with a great sense of humour one minute and then, without any warning, suddenly become a cold and callous person the next. Many of them will talk and argue with themselves as the two characters clash. However, a schitzophrenic will normally be a very calm person when taking his / her mind controlling drugs but without the drugs they can, note that I only say "can", become very dangerous to themselves and others. When you read about schitzos murdering somebody, it sounds horrific but when you consider that there are thousands of schitzos living and working in our communities (UK), one that commits a serious crime is not that big a deal. We hear of many more murders committed by totally sane people than we do of schitzos. If you believe somebody may be schitzo, be extremely carefull in jumping to conclusions. He / she may just have a personality disorder in which they may be the calmest person you know but ocassionaly he / she may not be able to control his /her anger too well. The best way to be sure is for the person to have a few sessions with a good Psychologist ( not a Psychiatrist) as a Psychologist analyses and can help that person to understand and hopefully control his / her behaviour without the need of mind blowing drugs. A Psychiatrist will just diagnose him / her with the worst thing that pops into the Psychtrist's mind at the time and then the Psychiatrist will prescribe some brain crippling drugs for the rest of his / her life so the Psychiatrist can have his free car, holiday etc. from the drug company. Psychiatrists have a personal interest (freebies from drug companies) and Psychologists have no such perk.

Answer 3

People diagnosed with schizophrenia usually experience a combination of positive/ excess of symptoms (i.e. hallucinations, delusions, racing thoughts), or negative (i.e. apathy, lack of emotion, poor or nonexistant social functioning), and cognitive (disorganized thoughts, difficulty concentrating and/or following instructions, difficulty completing tasks, memory problems)

schizophrenics also dont really know thety have a problem or wont accept it.
cant be totally diagnosed without analysis, there are 5 different types aswell so if you suspect something is wrong with someone you should let someone know.

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Answer 4

You would be able to tell. It is really something that needs to be diagnosed by a profesional, if you are worried about someone get them to a doctor. Things to look our for are, serious mood swings, not normal everyday things, talking about things that aren't real ie people looking in windows, people in the room who aren't there, anything out of the ordinary like that. Hearing voices in the head is another. Honestly if you are that worried get them to a doctor asap.

Answer 5

Schizophrenia would have to be diagnosed by a psychiatrist. Other disorders such as severe depression can also cause psychosis (such as seeing and hearing things paranoia), but it doesn't mean the sufferer has Schizophrenia.

Answer 6

Hallucinations and illusions
Delusions
Disordered thinking
Lack of emotional expression
Inappropriate reactions

Answer 7

you dont know-even strange behaviour could be caused by other things-like drink/drugs
social withdrawl,delusions,hallucinations are common features of this illness

Answer 8

Yes tell them to ask their other half

Answer 9

Psssst! It's "schizophrenic".

Answer 10

I don't know much about it but I think you'd would be able to tell.