Schizophrenia

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Previous answer: "Fight Club is a movie based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, while schizophrenia is a mental illness. So no, they're not the same thing." This is not actually answering your question, from what I can tell. The main character in Fight Club does have a mental illness, but it is not schizophrenia. If you have not seen the movie, I do not recommend you spoil it for yourself but you can go to imdb.com or the like to see the name of the actual mental illness the main character suffers from.

No, the fictional character Sherlock Holmes is not a schizophrenic. In the recent series with Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock Holmes is presented as a sociopath.

edit- Not true! In the beginning of the series, he claims to be a sociopath and has many tendencies thereof, but it is later shown that he does, in fact, care. He has many deep seeded emotions and cares deeply for many people. It is, however, very likely that his is schizophrenic. He sees things that no one else sees and can fabricate entire worlds inside his own head, on top of the facts that he had difficulty socializing and reacting with proper emotional output.

A negative mental set can affect motivation and ambition.

Is it POSSIBLE? Yes. However, having one does mean necessarily you will have the other.

Schizophrenia is often confused with other illnesses. In fact, some of its symptoms are symptoms for bipolar. These mutual symptoms include paranoia, bizarre delusions, and disorganized speech and thinking. However, if auditory hallucinations are occurring frequently then it is most likely that the person is suffering from schizophrenia. On the other hand, depression is more commonly associated with bipolar disorder and is not a symptom of schizophrenia. Furthermore, schizophrenics do not have 'split personality disorder'.

Yes, schizophrenics can become dangerous if the do not take there medications. The voices and hallucinations may become much more dominant. The patient could become violent. They could become very violent with no sign whatsoever. My mother works in the hospital. She worked with a schizophrenic man, who decided he didn't want to take his medication. Soon after words, he decided to hit a woman with his car.(Yes, then he was fired) I'm not saying all schizophrenics may be violent. No. That's not the point at all. Schizophrenics on medication are just fine. I have a schizo. Friend. She has her moments here and there, but she's a great person! If schizophrenics are off med's though, they could have the tendencies to become violent.

The life issues surrounding severe mental illness of any kind can be expected to lead to circumstances with a good chance of shortening life expectancy. These can be self-harm, failure to care for physical needs, issues with the law and other people, and a host of other problems.

Schizophrenics, in particular, need professional support since their disorder is especially vulnerable to self-neglect, and their hallucination and paranoiac episodes may lead to life-threatening situations.

Because everybody deserves a fair chance at a job, and it would be unconstitutional if they didn't allow that person to do that.

Psychosocial factors are now thought to influence the expression or severity of schizophrenia, rather than cause it directly.

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If the medication hasn't caused harm during thirty years of taking it, it is unlikely that it will begin to cause harm. Life-threatening side effects such as neuroleptic malignant syndrome generally occur during the first year of taking antipsychotic medication. Antipsychotic medication doesn't have any sort of cumulative poisonous effect, either.

Schizophrenia is not caused by emotional trauma. However, a pre-existing tendency may be triggered by such events. Schizophrenia is primarily hereditary, with a small sub-set of cases possibly being caused (or triggered) by head trauma.

John Nash suffers from Schizophrenia-Paranoid type which is DSM-IV coded as 295.3.

No, it was called "hebephrenia".

People with Type I, or positive schizophrenia, have a rapid (acute) onset of symptoms and tend to respond well to drugs. They also tend to suffer more from the "positive" symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations.

No, none of these disorders have causative brain malformations that are visible via any imaging technology.

It has been observed on images that the brains of those with schizophrenia is reduced in volume and the amount of cerebrospinal fluid filling the space at the center of the brain is increased, but there is a strong suspicion that this is a consequence of long term use of the antipsychotic medication used to control the disorder rather than the cause of the disorder.

If the person gets out of control you need to call an ambulance and they can get the person to the medical care he or she needs. The ambulance personnel are trained on dealing with the mentally ill person. If you have to call your own doctor and see if he or she can help you with the matter. Some mentally ill people have had to be tricked into getting help but it is better if you have medical personnel help you get the proper care you need for him or her.

It is technically possible- there is nothing specifically disallowing the diagnosis of all three- but it is unlikely. Schizoaffective disorder and OCD may be found together. In fact, 23% of people with schizophrenia can also be diagnosed with OCD. However, Borderline Personality Disorder is rarely found in people with schizophrenia and OCD.

Schizophrenia in women generally starts around the mid-to-late twenties.

It is too simplistic because not everyone who has too much dopamine or too little serotonin develops a disease, and because factors other than neurotransmitters influence those diseases.

Concordance rates that suggested a role of genes in schizophrenia might more accurately be interpreted as a reflection of the influence of shared prenatal experience.

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They are the same thing. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder in the spectrum of psychotic disorders. However, that said, Schizophrenia is the most severe of the psychotic disorders (with perhaps the exception of Schizoaffective disorder). A person can be labeled "psychotic" if they have a milder problem, such as delusional disorder.

People with schizophrenia have diminished capability to distinguish between things that are real and things that are not, diminished emotions and emotional response, may not make sense when speaking, and may not be able to take care of themselves.