Psychology - Schizophrenia

Psychology-Schizophrenia
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Psychology - Schizophrenia
Behavioral science is a discipline that deals with human actions and behaviors that affect people's daily activities. It focuses on evaluating the factors that influence the decisions and emotions of individuals. Schizobulia is an antisocial disorder that implicates emotions and decisions in an individual. What are the impacts of sociopathic behaviors such as Schizobulia and schizophrenia? Can we control antisocial behavior? Antisocial or sociopathic disorders are usually difficult to handle, but there are several remedies to recuperate them. Notably, these disorders are not easy to identify since they can be acquired, especially when they experience a devastating trauma. However, some of them have devastating effects, and they can lead to mental disability.
Consequently, sociopathic people can be dangerous to the community, especially if they have a narcissistic personality disorder. NPD (narcissistic personality disorder) patients usually have unique behavioral traits that tend to be self-destructive. Can physicians and psychologists help identify some of the behavioral traits at an early stage? There are thousands of people who have schizophrenia across the globe, and you may wonder what causes it. Sociopathic disorders such as schizophrenia have dreadful consequences, but they can be controlled if not cured fully, especially through counseling that boosts individuals' esteem to perceive the world as inclusive and equitable and to deter drug and substance abuse.
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This project focuses on schizophrenia disorder, which interferes with the brain's function ability in some people. The study will explore the causes, symptoms, and control measures on this particular sociopathic disorder. According to American Psychiatric Association (2020), schizophrenia disorders affect at least one percent of the USA's population. It is a dreadful disease with diverse impacts on both young and aged people. The primary symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations, lack of motivation, continuous delusions, and speech disorientation. Schizophrenia is an irrational disorder making it hard to treat; however, several measures can be taken to control the disorder. Typically, schizophrenia disorder is characterized by paranoia, which is clouded with delusions and hallucinations. Sometimes schizophrenia is marked with jealousy, and it alters body functions in diversified ways. In a 100,000 population, at least 100 people have schizophrenia disorder.
People with schizophrenia disorders are always paranoid, and most of the time, they will hear commanding voices that push them to take action. Some of the mass shootings experienced in America result from sociopathic disorders such as schizophrenia due to paranoia and hallucinations (Uhlhass, 2008). These voices may make an individual have trajectory laughter or maybe a violent act. There are different types of hallucinations characterized by schizophrenia disorder. For instance, there are visual or taste hallucinations. Furthermore, there are several types of schizophrenia disorder; namely catatonic, paranoid, undifferentiated, and hebephrenic disorders. A wide range of traits usually define these disorders, and they are intertwined in psychosis. The state of intertwining disrupts the connection between reality and paranoia (Marney, 2020). Psychosis interrupts normality in a person, for example, bipolar, and they make a person view things that are not real. The psychosis, schizobulia, and schizophrenia are under the same class since the victims encounter hallucinations and delusions. Other physical traits are associated with psychotic people include fidgeting, tapping, and sleeping problems. Schizophrenia catatonic disorder is associated with movement, and sometimes people with this type of disorder mimic other people's words.
The catatonic stupor leads to mutism, and a lack of early diagnosis and treatment increases the severity. An evaluation of the symptoms and causes helps physicians implement measures to help the affected people have better lives than before and alleviate the symptoms (NAMI, 2008). Surprisingly, schizophrenia disorder usually affects men more than women due to genetic differences and differentiation in the proneness of the drugs consumed. Noteworthy, there is no defined treatment for schizophrenia disorder. Nevertheless, researchers use gene differentiation to develop better therapies for sociopathic individuals. Some of the controlling measures include rehabilitation, which helps those positively diagnosed with the illness to avoid further episodes. Psychosocial programs help people diagnosed with schizophrenia manage their lives effectively (Uhlhass, 2008). According to the American Psychiatric Association (2020), schizophrenia usually affects people in the late teenage stage. Thus, early diagnosis is vital since it helps patients manage life skills and, most importantly, succeed in the labor force market. Community programs that provide work assist people with sociopathic disorders to fulfill their dreams. There are other organizations that help schizophrenia patients recuperate and have better lives. One such example is SARDAA (Schizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America), MHA (Mental Health America), NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), and families. As far as social support is concerned, there are different types of therapies administered to schizophrenia patients. For instance, CBT (cognitive behavior therapy) helps the affected people handle hallucinations and delusions.
The objectives of CBT therapies are to help patients manage emotions and possibly find psychotic triggers. Moreover, it also helps individuals with schizophrenia disorder to reduce hallucinations and delusions. Secondly, there is cognitive enhancement therapy, which helps people to monitor and identify social clues. CET also helps the affected people identify the triggers; I improve. The combination of CET and CBT helps individuals create self-awareness, making them self-sufficient. Help groups, therapies, and family education play an integral role in reducing hallucinations and delusions in people. Moreover, there are antipsychotic drugs that can be used alongside therapies to control schizophrenia. For example, Asenapine, which is used to treat mood disorders, helps people be less nervous and decrease delusions and hallucinations (Henriksen, & Parnas, 2012). Additionally, Asenapine helps in balancing neurotransmitters in the brain. Cariprazine is another essential drug that is used in controlling schizophrenia.
Consequently, there are some prescriptions that make schizophrenia disorder worse. Therefore, it is important to engage with the right treatment programs to void these challenges. Apart from Cariprazine and Asenapine, the most recommendable drug is referred to as Clozapine since it has fewer side effects. Due to the fact that schizophrenia is not curable, there are several myths and misconceptions associated with it. For example, at least 60% of American people think people with schizophrenia disorders have more than one personality (NAMI, 2008). Other people think that hallucinations only define schizophrenia disorder; however, it is not true because there are other elements that characterize it. According to MHA (mental health America), schizophrenia is not genetic; therefore, it does not affect the next generation if one family member has. Sociopathic disorders have devastating impacts on society; for example, people with psychotic disorders are likely to die early due to heart diseases. It can lead to disability, which affects an individual's occupation (WHO, 2019). It is also associated with stigmatization and discrimination amongst people with the order. However, it is the obligation of the health sector, government and society to embrace and help people suffering from schizophrenia achieve their goals by overriding the disorder (Henriksen, & Parnas, 2012). Coherently, it is crucial for the government to consider both clinical and non-clinical factors in helping to mitigate the problem of the growing incidence of schizophrenia.
Ethnic identity disparities which render some people to encounter low self-esteem or inferiority complex largely contribute to schizophrenia development, rendering it important to alleviate the risk among already diagnosed patients and high-risk individuals. Stress caused by ethnic minority status may be a large contributor to the overall mental health problems among immigrants. In line with the supposition, Veling et al. (2009) inform that "positive identification with one's ethnicity is a strong predictor of mental health in immigrants” (1149). In a matched case-control study conducted in Western Europe, researchers examined the possibility of adverse ethnic identity as a contributing factor to the development and severity of schizophrenia. The groups of research participants were all patients with first-time schizophrenic episodes and divided into non-Western immigrants (100), controls from the general hospital (100), and siblings (63). The research showed that the immigrants' cases had more negative ethnic identities than the general population, which were 64% and 35%, respectively (Veling et al., 2009). On average, immigrant cases were often found to have lower self-esteem than the general hospital controls and their siblings in the year prior to their first episode of schizophrenia. The impact of negative ethnic identity rather than ethnicity itself reveals that schizophrenia may be caused by environmental factors which trigger mental stress rather than the genetic make-up associated with a given ethnicity. While a minority may have a higher risk of schizophrenia when they are residing in a foreign country, a native to the foreign country would experience a similar risk when living in the minority's country. The study demonstrates the importance of context in understanding the sociological risk factors of schizophrenia.
Another study, known as the AESOP study, examined the African-Caribbean schizophrenic cases in England and found that...