PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Schizophrenia, Chlorpromazine
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Schizophrenia divided mind (or in a psychologist"s view, a broken mind) Schizophrenics do not show symptoms of multiple personality disorder. A group of psychological disorders involving distortions of thought, perception and emotion; bizarre behaviour; and social withdrawal. A lot of homeless people in toronto suffer from schizophrenia. Biggest problem is that schizophrenics cannot adapt or cope with the current lifestyle that society lives with. Means split minds but does not involve multiple personalities. Paranoid schizophrenics think that everyone is out to get them. No one actually knows what to do with a latent (or dangerous) schizophrenic. Schizophrenia is found more in men, but women also tend to get it. Men get it in the early middle age. Positive symptoms (addition or subtraction) (addition to their world ) (can be treated with medication) Delusions of persecution (everyone is out to get you) Delusions of grandeur (that they are the one to fix the earth )
