Mr. Henderson 3rd Period Abnormal Psychology Project
When talking about schizophrenia, most people don’t realize that there are many different types of the illness. They all seem to think of the same thing, which is actually a subtype of schizophrenia called paranoid schizophrenia. This specific type, to me, is the worst kind of schizophrenia you can have because you don’t just sit there in a stupor. Your mind is tormented by all kinds of ideas and things that aren’t reality.
An example are hallucinations. A person’s eyes, ears, skin, and nose may see, hear, feel, and smell things that don’t exist. They may taste things that are gross all the time even though nothing is in their mouth. They might see shadows moving, things warping and shifting, or things that aren’t there at all. This is sad because it makes it hard to do a lot of the everyday activities that we all need to do, like go to work and drive.
Another thing that happens are the delusions that can twist a person’s thoughts into thinking that they are being attacked by everyone around them. I read about people thinking there were plots from the government to control their thoughts, and aliens attempting to plant devices under their skin, and other scary stories. Reading about them is scary enough but to actually think that it is happening to you would be one hundred times more horrifying.
Mainly though, we are going to talk about the ways that paranoid schizophrenia can be treated. Paranoid schizophrenia treatment includes medication that must be taken regularly to keep the symptoms down, and therapy to help the person cope and learn to not react to the symptoms. We will talk more about this further in the website. Click on the other pages to learn more.
When talking about schizophrenia, most people don’t realize that there are many different types of the illness. They all seem to think of the same thing, which is actually a subtype of schizophrenia called paranoid schizophrenia. This specific type, to me, is the worst kind of schizophrenia you can have because you don’t just sit there in a stupor. Your mind is tormented by all kinds of ideas and things that aren’t reality.
An example are hallucinations. A person’s eyes, ears, skin, and nose may see, hear, feel, and smell things that don’t exist. They may taste things that are gross all the time even though nothing is in their mouth. They might see shadows moving, things warping and shifting, or things that aren’t there at all. This is sad because it makes it hard to do a lot of the everyday activities that we all need to do, like go to work and drive.
Another thing that happens are the delusions that can twist a person’s thoughts into thinking that they are being attacked by everyone around them. I read about people thinking there were plots from the government to control their thoughts, and aliens attempting to plant devices under their skin, and other scary stories. Reading about them is scary enough but to actually think that it is happening to you would be one hundred times more horrifying.
Mainly though, we are going to talk about the ways that paranoid schizophrenia can be treated. Paranoid schizophrenia treatment includes medication that must be taken regularly to keep the symptoms down, and therapy to help the person cope and learn to not react to the symptoms. We will talk more about this further in the website. Click on the other pages to learn more.