Although an exact definition of schizophrenia ( some people says: schizo, schizophrenic, skitzophrenic, schizophrenic, skitsofrenic, skitzofrenic, scitsofrenic, schiz, esquizofrenia ) has always been debated by experts, there are indications that more and more apparent that schizophrenia is a disorder that occurs in brain function.
In the book The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry, written by Dr. Nancy Andreasen, said that the current evidence about the attack Schizophrenia is a matter that involves many factors. These factors include changes in the physical structure of the brain, changes in chemical structure of the brain, and genetic factors.
In the brain, there are billions of cell connections. Each cell connections become a place to forward and receive messages from other cell connections. Connection cells release chemicals called neurotransmitters, which carry messages from one cell end of the connection to the other end of the cell connection. In the brain afflicted with schizophrenia, there is a fault or damage to communication systems.
For families with people with schizophrenia in it, will understand clearly what is experienced by patients with schizophrenia by comparing the brain with the phone. In a normal person, the system switches on the brain to work normally. Perceptual signals that come shipped back perfectly without any interference resulting in feelings, thoughts, and finally take action as needed at that time. In the brains of people with schizophrenia, these signals being sent to crash, so it does not successfully achieve the targeted cell connection.
Schizophrenia is formed in stages where families and people do not realize there was something wrong in his brain, within a period of time. The damage this slowly, eventually becoming an insidious schizophrenia. Symptoms that occur slowly, it could be acute schizophrenia. Periods of acute schizophrenia is a disorder that is short and strong, which include hallucinations, deception thoughts (delusions), and failure to think.
Schizophrenia sometimes a sudden attack. Very dramatic changes in behavior that occurs within a few days or weeks. The sudden attack is always triggered the acute period quickly. Some people develop a lifelong disorder, but many are able to return to normal life in the acute period. Most found that they were excluded, suffering from severe depression, and can not function as normal people in their environment.
In some cases, attacks can be increased to what is called chronic schizophrenia. Patients with a savage, lost character as a man in social life, have no motivation at all, depression, and lack of sensitivity about his own feelings.
Psychiatrists distinguish symptoms of schizophrenia into two, namely the positive and negative symptoms.
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Hallucinations always occurred when the stimulus is too strong and the brain is not able to interpret and respond to messages or stimuli that come. People with schizophrenia may hear voices or see things that are not there, or experienced an unusual sensation in his body. Auditory hallucinations, symptoms that usually occur, ie the patient felt no sound from within itself. Sometimes it felt soothing voice, bring peace, but sometimes the voice told him to do something really dangerous, like suicide.
Misdirection of thoughts (delusions) is a strong belief in interpreting something that is sometimes contrary to reality. For example, in patients with schizophrenia, traffic lights on the highway that are red yellow green, regarded as a signal from outer space. Some people turn into a paranoid schizophrenia. They always felt being scrutinized, staked, or about to be attacked.
Failure of thinking leads to problems, where patients with schizophrenia are unable to process and organize his thoughts. Most people are not able to understand the relationship between reality and logic. Because people with schizophrenia are not able to organize his thoughts, get them talking randomly and can not be captured by logic. Inability of thinking resulted in the inability to control emotions and feelings. The result, patients with schizophrenia sometimes laughed to himself or talking to himself out loud regardless of surroundings.
All that makes patients with schizophrenia can not understand who he is, not dressed, and could not understand what it was human. He also could not understand when he was born, where he is, and so on.
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Patients with schizophrenia lose motivation and apathy mean the loss of energy and interest in life that makes people become lazy people. Because people with schizophrenia have only a little energy, they can not do other things besides sleep and eat.
Create emotional feelings blunted in patients with schizophrenia to be flat. People with schizophrenia do not have a good expression of his countenance and gesture, as if he did not have any emotions. But this does not mean that people with schizophrenia can not feel anything. They might be able to receive gifts and attention of others, but could not express their feelings.
Depression who do not know the feeling of wanting to help and hope, always be a part of life in patients with schizophrenia. They do not feel have behavior disorders, relationships can not build relationships with others, and did not know love. Feelings of depression is something that is very painful. In addition, the biological brain changes also contributed to the depression.
Sustained depression in patients with schizophrenia will make a withdraw from their environment. They always feel safe when alone.
In some cases, schizophrenia attacked the young man between 15 to 30 years, but attacks mostly occur at the age of 40 years and over. Schizophrenia can affect anyone regardless of gender, race, or socioeconomic level. It is estimated that patients with schizophrenia by 1% of the total human being on earth.
Schizophrenia can not be cured until now. But with the help of psychiatrist and medication, schizophrenia can be controlled. Recovery does sometimes occur, but can not be predicted. In some cases, the patient became better than before. Relief of symptoms is always visible within the first 2 years after patients were treated, and gradually became rare after 5 years of treatment. At the advanced age, over 40 years, life in patients with schizophrenia who were treated, the better, the administered dose will decrease, and frequency of treatment will be increasingly rare.
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Senin, 21 November 2011
The Weird Mental Disorders
People who appear normal in life, it can also suffer from weird mental disorder.
Then what weird mental disorder but is rarely seen by people around him? Here are 10 weird mental disorder that could have been suffered by friends around us, without us knowing it.
1. Ablutomania: maniac to wash hands
Patients Ablutomania wants everything was hygienic. When his hand hit the dirt a little, then she would quickly wash her hands.
2. Trichotillomania: a passion for the hair itself
The disorder is also called 'trich'. Sufferers have a huge desire to pluck the hair and feathers. Including the hair on the face (such as a mustache, beard, hair, etc.) until the hair on the body (such as chest hair, underarm hair, and so on)
3. Aboulomania: difficult to determine the decision
People with this disorder is very difficult to make decisions even to things that are very small though. Example: the color of what he wanted to write a book, or pen colors, and so on.
4. Enosimania: the constant belief that he is innocent
Sufferers believe that he has done an unforgivable sin and because of his fear Enosimania sufferers tend to have shortness of breath and rapid, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea and filled with a sense of fear.
5. Onomatomania: obsession to repeat words
Obsessed with repeating the same words and many times
6. Demonomania: believe in evil spirits entered
Demonomania always felt like evil spirits and felt disturbed by it.
7. Clinomania: obsession to stay in bed
Patients are not always able to escape from the bed. The desire to be in the bed was enormous. Well, it seems many people who suffer Clinomania especially when the weather is cold and cloudy.
8. Cartocacoethes: obsession to see the map
Obsessed to see the map are the characteristics of patients Cartocacoethes. Frequently until the food and drinks they also serve as image maps, so the amount of their desire to see the map.
9. Gamomania: obsession to apply
Perhaps this disorder suffered by the maniacs in love, so they are happy to apply some of the girls at once in about the same time.
10. Doromania: obsession to give a gift
Doramania have the obsession to give gifts to certain people so that he does not hesitate to sell the property or loan to another person just to give gifts to people who headed for. Provision is also not half-hearted, could be from as small as a pen, to a large like a car or house.
Then what weird mental disorder but is rarely seen by people around him? Here are 10 weird mental disorder that could have been suffered by friends around us, without us knowing it.
1. Ablutomania: maniac to wash hands
Patients Ablutomania wants everything was hygienic. When his hand hit the dirt a little, then she would quickly wash her hands.
2. Trichotillomania: a passion for the hair itself
The disorder is also called 'trich'. Sufferers have a huge desire to pluck the hair and feathers. Including the hair on the face (such as a mustache, beard, hair, etc.) until the hair on the body (such as chest hair, underarm hair, and so on)
3. Aboulomania: difficult to determine the decision
People with this disorder is very difficult to make decisions even to things that are very small though. Example: the color of what he wanted to write a book, or pen colors, and so on.
4. Enosimania: the constant belief that he is innocent
Sufferers believe that he has done an unforgivable sin and because of his fear Enosimania sufferers tend to have shortness of breath and rapid, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea and filled with a sense of fear.
5. Onomatomania: obsession to repeat words
Obsessed with repeating the same words and many times
6. Demonomania: believe in evil spirits entered
Demonomania always felt like evil spirits and felt disturbed by it.
7. Clinomania: obsession to stay in bed
Patients are not always able to escape from the bed. The desire to be in the bed was enormous. Well, it seems many people who suffer Clinomania especially when the weather is cold and cloudy.
8. Cartocacoethes: obsession to see the map
Obsessed to see the map are the characteristics of patients Cartocacoethes. Frequently until the food and drinks they also serve as image maps, so the amount of their desire to see the map.
9. Gamomania: obsession to apply
Perhaps this disorder suffered by the maniacs in love, so they are happy to apply some of the girls at once in about the same time.
10. Doromania: obsession to give a gift
Doramania have the obsession to give gifts to certain people so that he does not hesitate to sell the property or loan to another person just to give gifts to people who headed for. Provision is also not half-hearted, could be from as small as a pen, to a large like a car or house.
Define paranoia, paranoid, causes, symptoms and treatment.
Paranoia is defined as a mental illness in which a person believes that others want to harm him. Paranoia is defined as a mental disorder characterized by irrational suspicions.
Paranoid is defined as a sense of fear that can not be found and the cause we feel there are people who want to harm us. It also includes the suspicion that others will disappoint or bother us. Psychoanalytic theorists argue, that paranoid personality disorder is the result of the needs of the people to reject the true feelings and projecting these feelings into others. Then the cognitive theorists see the paranoid personality disorder as a result of a fundamental belief that the other person as being malevolent and deceptive, combined with a lack of confidence in defending himself against others.
Paranoid personality disorder ( PPD ) is a condition where the individual characteristics can not be trusting and suspicious of others excessively. Told as a nuisance, if the behavior is its persistent, disturbing and depressing (distressing). However, this behavior is not called as a form of personality disorder if the behavior is caused by the emergence of schizophrenia, mood disorders (such as major depression) with psychotic symptoms, or other psychotic disorders (neurological factors), or causes caused by medical conditions.
Individuals with paranoid personality disorder is difficult to believe and suspect excessive when interacting with others, so feel afraid to get close to anyone, suspicious of strangers even though the person is not right for suspicion.
He has a few friends, it is difficult to trust others to make these individuals can not be invited to cooperate in a team. However, it does not mean paranoid personality disorder can not be married. Jealousy and a desire to control their partner, became the pathology in the relationship with her partner.
Almost every time an individual PPD difficult to stay calm for not suspecting others, sometimes they deliberately look for someone to become a suspect and deserves to be suspected. The fear that arises, it makes the individual can not do anything about it (nervous) when people are suspected to be close to him. Frequent rejection either by confrontation, aggressive, or dispute, they chose not to make friends with that person and chose himself to be alone.
Individuals with this disorder are usually suspicious, hypersensitive, rigid, anxious, and argumentative. They tend to see themselves as good, which has no defects, and rarely able to see the flaw itself, although he knew.
Characteristic of paranoid personality disorder is appreciation, not unreasonable, and distrust in others. People with this disorder believe that other people are chronically trying to deceive or cheat them or exploit them, and especially occupational (continuous) with respect to fidelity and traits that can be trusted than others. They are people who are very vigilant, to show the facts of their suspicions.
In addition, paranoid people are also very sensitive to criticism or potential criticism. People misinterpret paranoid or too overboard in interpreting situations they suspected. For example, a husband with a strong interpreting (interpreting) the joy his wife one night as proof that he has a relationship (affair) with another man at work.
Paranoid personality disorder symptoms
Some of the symptoms shown in paranoid personality disorder, among others, is
• Highly Suspicious excessive
• Believing in the existence of the hidden motives of others.
• Feeling will be exploited or betrayed by others.
• Inability of cooperating with others.
• Social isolation.
• Poor self image
• Attitude is not affected.
• Hostility.
• Continually bear grudges that by not forgiving loss, injury or negligence.
• Feeling the attack on the character or reputation that are not visible to others, and to quickly react angry and strike back.
• Reluctant to tell the secrets of others because of fear that is not necessary, that information will be used maliciously against him.
• Lack of a sense of humor.
Those who have this disorder showed a high demand to meet him, impressed rigid and even gave the charge to others. Due to their avoidance behavior towards closeness with other people makes them look very full calculation in the act and also memorable cold. From the results of the research found that most of these disorders are found in men than in women.
Causes
Specifically, the causes of the emergence of this disorder is still unknown, but often in a case arise in individuals who have family members with schizophrenia disorder, in other words, genetic factors still affecting. Paranoid personality disorder can also be caused by a bad childhood experience coupled with state of the environment that feels threatening. Parenting is likely to foster a sense of trust between the child with others, can also be the cause of development of this disorder
Treatment
Treatment for paranoid personality disorder will be very effective for controlling paranoia (suspicious feelings excess), but it will always be difficult because the patient will always have the suspicion to the doctor or therapist who treated him. If left alone, the condition of the patient will become more chronic. Treatment performed, the system includes primary care, and also treatments that are outside the main treatment (supplement), such as programs to develop themselves, the support of families, lectures, home care, building honest to yourself, all of which will enhance and assist the process healing the patient. So expect the worst social consequences that are common of these disorders, such as family breakdown, job loss and also a place to live can be avoided to be experienced by the patient.
Medications
Medication or treatment for paranoid personality disorder generally not supported, a trend that usually arises is the growing suspicion of the patients who ultimately make withdrawal from therapy that has been undertaken. Experts point to a more focused form of treatment to the specific conditions of these disorders such as anxiety and delusions, in which the feeling is that a major problem damaging the normal functioning of mental patients. but for rapid response to patients who need emergency treatment then the use of drugs is very helpful, as when the patient begins to lose control of himself as a rage and attacked another ornag.
Psychotherapy
The difficulties faced by therapists in this disorder are not aware of the disorder sufferers in him and feel no need the help of therapists. Another difficulty faced by the therapist that the individual PDD difficult to accept the therapist's own, suspicion and distrust make treatment difficult.
Although people with paranoid personality disorder usually has its own initiative to do the treatment, but often also their own healing process stops prematurely. Likewise, the development of trust committed by the therapist to the client, which requires more attention, but it likely will remain complicated to be able to lead clients to build self confidence even though the stage has been completed.
Possible long-term for people with paranoid personality disorder are less good, most of which happen to future patients is the persistence of existing properties throughout their lives, but with effective treatment and is consistent then the cure for patients with clearly still open.
The method of self-development as a group may be made to the patient despite having a hard time implementation. High level of suspicion and distrust in people will make the presence of a support group to be useless or even worse can be destructive for the patient themselves.
Paranoid is defined as a sense of fear that can not be found and the cause we feel there are people who want to harm us. It also includes the suspicion that others will disappoint or bother us. Psychoanalytic theorists argue, that paranoid personality disorder is the result of the needs of the people to reject the true feelings and projecting these feelings into others. Then the cognitive theorists see the paranoid personality disorder as a result of a fundamental belief that the other person as being malevolent and deceptive, combined with a lack of confidence in defending himself against others.
Paranoid personality disorder ( PPD ) is a condition where the individual characteristics can not be trusting and suspicious of others excessively. Told as a nuisance, if the behavior is its persistent, disturbing and depressing (distressing). However, this behavior is not called as a form of personality disorder if the behavior is caused by the emergence of schizophrenia, mood disorders (such as major depression) with psychotic symptoms, or other psychotic disorders (neurological factors), or causes caused by medical conditions.
Individuals with paranoid personality disorder is difficult to believe and suspect excessive when interacting with others, so feel afraid to get close to anyone, suspicious of strangers even though the person is not right for suspicion.
He has a few friends, it is difficult to trust others to make these individuals can not be invited to cooperate in a team. However, it does not mean paranoid personality disorder can not be married. Jealousy and a desire to control their partner, became the pathology in the relationship with her partner.
Almost every time an individual PPD difficult to stay calm for not suspecting others, sometimes they deliberately look for someone to become a suspect and deserves to be suspected. The fear that arises, it makes the individual can not do anything about it (nervous) when people are suspected to be close to him. Frequent rejection either by confrontation, aggressive, or dispute, they chose not to make friends with that person and chose himself to be alone.
Individuals with this disorder are usually suspicious, hypersensitive, rigid, anxious, and argumentative. They tend to see themselves as good, which has no defects, and rarely able to see the flaw itself, although he knew.
Characteristic of paranoid personality disorder is appreciation, not unreasonable, and distrust in others. People with this disorder believe that other people are chronically trying to deceive or cheat them or exploit them, and especially occupational (continuous) with respect to fidelity and traits that can be trusted than others. They are people who are very vigilant, to show the facts of their suspicions.
In addition, paranoid people are also very sensitive to criticism or potential criticism. People misinterpret paranoid or too overboard in interpreting situations they suspected. For example, a husband with a strong interpreting (interpreting) the joy his wife one night as proof that he has a relationship (affair) with another man at work.
Paranoid personality disorder symptoms
Some of the symptoms shown in paranoid personality disorder, among others, is
• Highly Suspicious excessive
• Believing in the existence of the hidden motives of others.
• Feeling will be exploited or betrayed by others.
• Inability of cooperating with others.
• Social isolation.
• Poor self image
• Attitude is not affected.
• Hostility.
• Continually bear grudges that by not forgiving loss, injury or negligence.
• Feeling the attack on the character or reputation that are not visible to others, and to quickly react angry and strike back.
• Reluctant to tell the secrets of others because of fear that is not necessary, that information will be used maliciously against him.
• Lack of a sense of humor.
Those who have this disorder showed a high demand to meet him, impressed rigid and even gave the charge to others. Due to their avoidance behavior towards closeness with other people makes them look very full calculation in the act and also memorable cold. From the results of the research found that most of these disorders are found in men than in women.
Causes
Specifically, the causes of the emergence of this disorder is still unknown, but often in a case arise in individuals who have family members with schizophrenia disorder, in other words, genetic factors still affecting. Paranoid personality disorder can also be caused by a bad childhood experience coupled with state of the environment that feels threatening. Parenting is likely to foster a sense of trust between the child with others, can also be the cause of development of this disorder
Treatment
Treatment for paranoid personality disorder will be very effective for controlling paranoia (suspicious feelings excess), but it will always be difficult because the patient will always have the suspicion to the doctor or therapist who treated him. If left alone, the condition of the patient will become more chronic. Treatment performed, the system includes primary care, and also treatments that are outside the main treatment (supplement), such as programs to develop themselves, the support of families, lectures, home care, building honest to yourself, all of which will enhance and assist the process healing the patient. So expect the worst social consequences that are common of these disorders, such as family breakdown, job loss and also a place to live can be avoided to be experienced by the patient.
Medications
Medication or treatment for paranoid personality disorder generally not supported, a trend that usually arises is the growing suspicion of the patients who ultimately make withdrawal from therapy that has been undertaken. Experts point to a more focused form of treatment to the specific conditions of these disorders such as anxiety and delusions, in which the feeling is that a major problem damaging the normal functioning of mental patients. but for rapid response to patients who need emergency treatment then the use of drugs is very helpful, as when the patient begins to lose control of himself as a rage and attacked another ornag.
Psychotherapy
The difficulties faced by therapists in this disorder are not aware of the disorder sufferers in him and feel no need the help of therapists. Another difficulty faced by the therapist that the individual PDD difficult to accept the therapist's own, suspicion and distrust make treatment difficult.
Although people with paranoid personality disorder usually has its own initiative to do the treatment, but often also their own healing process stops prematurely. Likewise, the development of trust committed by the therapist to the client, which requires more attention, but it likely will remain complicated to be able to lead clients to build self confidence even though the stage has been completed.
Possible long-term for people with paranoid personality disorder are less good, most of which happen to future patients is the persistence of existing properties throughout their lives, but with effective treatment and is consistent then the cure for patients with clearly still open.
The method of self-development as a group may be made to the patient despite having a hard time implementation. High level of suspicion and distrust in people will make the presence of a support group to be useless or even worse can be destructive for the patient themselves.
Jumat, 18 November 2011
Understanding Anxiety vs Depression
Anxiety and depression is something different, although equally associated with emotional disorders.
There are similarities between them but there are also differences that make them unique. Knowing more details about the differences and similarities between anxiety and depression are very useful, before asking for help psychiatrists. That need to be understood, anxiety will be present at all times, it takes a human to survive.
Anxiety manifests as fear and worry emotions and physical sensations of chest pain, nausea, rapid heart beat, blood pressure and digestive system slows down. When they occur, symptoms are most often quite natural.
Hippocampus and amygdala of the brain is the place where the anxiety comes. Because it is part of our genetic makeup, anxiety is a natural response.
Thing that concerns us today is that although anxiety is normal, if there is too much in our lives, this is not something good. When depression mixed with anxiety, this condition usually requires investigation as a medical problem.
Sometimes crawling on your depression. For example, you may find yourself in the midst of depression after experiencing extreme terror or fear of anxiety symptoms.
Then there are situations in which you live with constant stress. Depression is also a result of living with anxiety for years and did not get help or treatment to reduce anxiety.
Depression and Anxiety Treatment
Your doctor may also prescribe an anti-convulsant such as Depakote [R] to go along with anti-depression medication you may be taking. He or she may also prescribe Lithium to help reduce your anxiety. What matters is this: if you're suffering from depression and anxiety involved in therapy. Check with your mental state can help to alleviate the cause of your pain.
There are similarities between them but there are also differences that make them unique. Knowing more details about the differences and similarities between anxiety and depression are very useful, before asking for help psychiatrists. That need to be understood, anxiety will be present at all times, it takes a human to survive.
Anxiety manifests as fear and worry emotions and physical sensations of chest pain, nausea, rapid heart beat, blood pressure and digestive system slows down. When they occur, symptoms are most often quite natural.
Hippocampus and amygdala of the brain is the place where the anxiety comes. Because it is part of our genetic makeup, anxiety is a natural response.
Thing that concerns us today is that although anxiety is normal, if there is too much in our lives, this is not something good. When depression mixed with anxiety, this condition usually requires investigation as a medical problem.
Sometimes crawling on your depression. For example, you may find yourself in the midst of depression after experiencing extreme terror or fear of anxiety symptoms.
Then there are situations in which you live with constant stress. Depression is also a result of living with anxiety for years and did not get help or treatment to reduce anxiety.
Depression and Anxiety Treatment
Your doctor may also prescribe an anti-convulsant such as Depakote [R] to go along with anti-depression medication you may be taking. He or she may also prescribe Lithium to help reduce your anxiety. What matters is this: if you're suffering from depression and anxiety involved in therapy. Check with your mental state can help to alleviate the cause of your pain.
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