| Diagnosing schizophrenia is quite a complicated | | | | common hallucinations are critical or unfriendly voices. |
| procedure involving a lot of spent time observing the | | | | This voices may have been in their mind all their life, |
| person's actions and way of thinking. That person | | | | but they have been triggered to be more aggressive |
| may start developing different symptoms like | | | | by a particular event. |
| anxiety, confusion and starting to be suspicious on | | | | The delusions are the experiences or beliefs that the |
| other people, mostly those that don't agree with | | | | patient has regarding facts that don't exist. |
| their view of things around; they may even refuse | | | | The negative symptoms are named so because |
| to admit the fact that they need help. Doctors have | | | | they are not noticed as easily as other signs of the |
| to put a correct diagnose so they will look for both | | | | illness. They might be such signs as being withdrawn, |
| positive and negative symptoms; strange thinking, | | | | apathetic, and unable to concentrate. It is all so often |
| hallucinations and delusions are positive signs and | | | | that patient shows either a very chaotic behavior, |
| apathy, emotional flatness, inability to concentrate, | | | | much depending on people's response towards them, |
| wanting to avoid people or to be protected are | | | | or a very mellow way of being sitting in a certain |
| negative symptoms. | | | | spot and not moving for hours. Because of this kind |
| Strange thinking is also a major symptom in | | | | of actions people tend to discriminate and ignore |
| schizophrenic people. Their ideas might seem a bit | | | | other persons with mental problems, making them fell |
| strange to other people making little sense to them. | | | | depressed and isolated. |
| Logical thinking may also present a problem to them. | | | | As much as one in every hundred people is |
| Loneliness and isolation may install because of the | | | | diagnosed with suffering of schizophrenia usually |
| inability of the patient to properly talk. | | | | between the ages of 20 and 30. The number of men |
| Hallucinations are another problem in schizophrenia | | | | and women found with the illness is roughly the |
| patients. According to a research, up to 4% of | | | | same, but the age of men tends to be smaller at the |
| people hear voices but that doesn't pose a problem | | | | time when they are diagnosed. |
| for them. In the case of sick persons this is an | | | | Diagnosing schizophrenia is quite tricky sometimes, |
| entirely different thing: they may hear voices or | | | | and that is why a second opinion should always be |
| sounds that other people don't, this voices being | | | | looked after to be shore no mistakes have been |
| sometimes familiar, friendly or critical. In the case of | | | | made. |
| people diagnosed with schizophrenia the most | | | | |