PSYC2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Bipolar Disorder, Psychosis, Approximation
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Severe mental illness affecting 0. 7% of the population. Hospitals, mental health, lost productivity, prisons (3% of prisoners suffer from. Approximately 11% of homeless people believed to have schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is arguably the worst disease affecting mankind . Termed negative symptoms because they are deficits in functioning. They involve disruptions to emotional experience and behaviour. Factor analytic studies suggest a 3-factor model: reality distortion (psychotic symptoms/positive symptoms, disorganization, negative symptoms, reality distortion (psychotic symptoms - positive symptoms) Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder - it is characterized by the presence of hallucinati. But the presence of psychotic symptoms does not necessarily imply schizophrenia. Psychotic symptoms are also present in bipolar i disorder. A distortion or excess of normal brain (thought) functioning - active manifestations of include delusions and hallucinations om sz) inations (false perceptions) and delusions (false beliefs) s of ab or an excess or distortion of normal behaviour, and mulu.
