Kennedy Harkins's List: Schizo

• hear voices other people don't hear.
• other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them
• may not make sense when they talk.
• Genes and environment
• Different brain chemistry and structure.
• 1% of Americans have this illness.
• ffects men and women equally
• similar rates in all ethnic groups around the world
• Symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions usually start between ages 16 and 30.
• People with positive symptoms often "lose touch" with reality.
• Hallucinations are things a person sees, hears, smells, or feels that no one else can see, hear, smell, or feel.
• Delusions are false beliefs that are not part of the person's culture and do not change.
• believes delusions even after other people prove that the beliefs are not true or logica
• dysfunctional ways of thinking.
• has trouble organizing his or her thoughts or connecting them logically.
• may appear as agitated body movements.
• Flat affect" (a person's face does not move or he or she talks in a dull or monotonous voice)
• Lack of pleasure in everyday life
• • Lack of ability to begin and sustain planned activities
  • Speaking little, even when forced to interact.
• Poor "executive functioning" (the ability to understand information and use it to make decisions)
• Trouble focusing or paying attention
• roblems with "working memory" (the ability to use information immediately after learning it).
• Antipsychotic medications
• atypical antipsychotics
• side effects
• • Drowsiness
  • Dizziness when changing positions
  • Blurred vision
  • Rapid heartbeat
  • Sensitivity to the sun
  • Skin rashes
  • Menstrual problems for women.
• • Rigidity
  • Persistent muscle spasms
  • Tremors
  • Restlessness.
• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on thinking and behavior.
• helps patients with symptoms that do not go away even when they take medication
• test the reality of their thoughts and perceptions,
• Self-help groups

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