Schizophrenia is a form of psychosis that shifts sufferers from reality to an often terrifying world of delusions, confusion, danger and hallucination. Often the symptoms of schizophrenia are described as “positive” or “negative.” Positive symptoms, such as delusions, hallucinations, thought disorders and involuntary movements may come and go. Negative symptoms refer to reductions in normal [...]

 
Schizophrenia treatment usually depends upon how it is classified. In the early 1900s, schizophrenia was considered to be a “hereditary defect” and sufferers in America, Germany and Scandinavia were subject to eugenics, preventing people with mental illnesses to procreate. In 1927, the US Supreme Court upheld a Virginia law mandating that all patients in state [...]

 
Schizophrenia is a terrifying mental disorder for approximately 1/100 people world wide. Often, it is mistaken for multiple personality disorder, but generally the schizophrenic’s personality, mannerisms, likes and dislikes stay the same, yet are interrupted by psychotic episodes like paranoia, delusions, disorganized thinking or hallucinations. Early psychosis can be detected in teenagers or young adults [...]

 
Imagine how hard it would be if your version of reality did not seem to coincide with what the general public believed to be reality. Living each day with hallucinations and hearing voices inside your head that are really not there. For millions of people around the world this is a normal day. They live, [...]

 
Doctors say there are approximately 2.5 million people with schizophrenia. Of those, typically 10-20% will achieve successful recovery. However, new research suggests that treatment of schizophrenia could be up to 68% successful if psycho-social therapy is applied. In fact, famous schizophrenics like Nobel prize winning mathematician John Nash, Pink Floyd guitarist Syd Barrett or author [...]

 
One of the biggest causes of homelessness and poverty is paranoid schizophrenia. Many patients do not realize they have a serious mental illness and therefore don’t treat schizophrenia accordingly. Some of the signs of early psychosis may be social withdrawal, distorted perception and anxiety. If untreated, then more serious symptoms almost always appear, including hallucinations [...]

 
Mental illnesses affect roughly 1 in 5 families across America, whether they realize it or not. Some teenagers exhibit medical symptoms of early psychosis, withdrawing to their rooms, languishing in despair and feeling like they can’t connect with others. Others may have bipolar disorder, where they feel extremely happy at times and plummet to extreme [...]

 
Outpatients living with schizophrenia should be subtly pushed by friends and relatives to recover, researchers suggest. Encouragement and bargaining should be used to facilitate change. People with mental illness should be included in household responsibilities, such as washing the dishes, gardening or setting the table. Planning group activities several times a week or even creating [...]

 
Approximately 91% of those employed in the clinical psychology field engage in psychological assessments aimed at diagnosis and treatment. Tests may include intelligence/achievement tests like IQ tests or WISC-IV tests, which measure knowledge, verbal skills, memory, reasoning, attention span and spatial perception. Personality tests try to categorize behavioral and logical patterns. The MMPI, Rorschach Inkblot [...]

 
What does John Nash (a Nobel Prize winning mathematician), Syd Barrett (the guitarist of Pink Floyd) and author Jack Kerouac have in common? They are all people who’ve been diagnosed with schizophrenia. It was traditionally believed that schizophrenia was a life-long debilitating disorder, but decades of schizophrenia research shows encouraging results as patients learn more [...]