All About Schizophrenia
Main Category: SchizophreniaArticle Date: 23 Apr 2004 - 0:00 PDT
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The word schizophrenia comes from the Greek word skhizein meaning "to split" and the Greek word Phrenos (phren) meaning "diaphragm, heart, mind". According to Medilexicon's medical dictionary, schizophrenia is "A term coined by Bleuler, synonymous with and replacing dementia praecox, denoting a common type of psychosis, characterized by abnormalities in perception, content of thought, and thought processes (hallucinations and delusions) and by extensive withdrawal of interest from other people and the outside world, with excessive focusing on one's own mental life. Now considered a group or spectrum of disorders rather than a single entity, with distinction sometimes made between process schizophrenia and reactive schizophrenia. The "split" personality of schizophrenia, in which individual psychic components or functions split off and become autonomous, is popularly but erroneously identified with multiple personality, in which two or more relatively complete personalities dominate by turns the psychic life of a patient.".
In 1910, the Swiss psychiatrist, Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939) created the term Schizophrenie.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that generally appears in late adolescence or early adulthood - however, it can emerge at any time in life. It most commonly strikes between the ages of 15 to 25 among men, and about 25 to 35 in women. In many cases the disorder develops so slowly that the sufferer does not know he/she has it for a long time. While, with other people it can strike suddenly and develop fast.
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posted by Vennie on 24 May 2007 at 2:39 pmThe end of this article was unbelievable to me. I am a person with schizophrenia who has been in remission for 6 months...and I am having a very difficult time coping with the absence of voices. I have never, until this article, heard of anyone else who felt so empty without them and it made me feel so much better to read that the case study individual was having trouble coping without them as well.
Though I do not suffer from the intense addiction problems the individual has, and have very rarely been medication non compliant, I felt that someone was finally maybe understanding that there is a need to support people in the remissive phase of schizophrenia just as much as the acute phase.
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