Editor: Nadeem Iqbal
Schizophrenia is a mental illness in which the patient is detached from reality. The patient’s ability to think and understand feelings, movement, and hygiene (bathing, changing clothes, and shaving) are impaired. In this disease, voices are usually heard that no one else hears, people are seen that no one else sees, sometimes they just sit there and stay there for hours. When they speak, they go on speaking and talk in such a way that another person can understand only 20% of it. Sometimes these patients feel that someone is reading their mind or someone is controlling their thoughts or someone wants to harm them or people are lying behind them, that’s why some patients stop eating and drinking. And their physical health also deteriorates. Irritability sets in, patients show more anger than normal people, and one minute they get ready to kill someone or kill themselves or die themselves.
This is the reason why schizophrenia patients have a huge percentage of suicide. 20 to 40 percent try to commit suicide. 13% of which are successful. And in a short period of time, this disease destroys their education, job, social life. In Schizophrenia, the patient’s sleep is usually disturbed and he sleeps only for a couple of hours a day. Symptoms 13% of which are successful. And in a short period of time, this disease destroys their education, job, social life. In Schizophrenia, the patient’s sleep is usually disturbed and he sleeps only for a couple of hours a day. Symptoms 13% of which are successful. And in a short period of time, this disease destroys their education, job, social life. In Schizophrenia, the patient’s sleep is usually disturbed and he sleeps only for a couple of hours a day. Symptoms
Positive Symptoms
- Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Disorganized Thinking
- Agitational
1. Delusion
Delusions mean that the patient begins to talk unreal. It says let me go home there Katrina Kaif is waiting for me. One of my patients used to say that I am Imam Mahdi. A patient used to say that Zardari’s daughter does not want to marry me. Similarly, there is Delusion of Paranoia in which the patient is suspicious of others. One thing that is common to all delusions is that the patient makes unrealistic statements that have no relation to reality.
2. Hallucinaltons
- Visual Hallucinaltons is the type in which what the patient sees is not visible to other people.
- Auditory Hallucinal is in which the patient hears sounds that other people do not hear.
- Tactile Hallucinaltons in the patient usually feels that his body organ is damaged. It will not come, but the patient will repeatedly say that I smell bad.
3. Disorganized Thinking
This is a symptom in which the patient’s thoughts become disordered, that is, sometimes the speed of thinking becomes faster and when he speaks, he continues to speak until he is not focused on anything else. He can put and his words also become illogical.
4. Catatonic
In this symptom, the patient repeats a certain movement or sometimes it happens that the patient remains in a single movement, as I know a patient who in this symptom, whatever is in front of him. When it comes, he puts it in his mouth and there is a patient who, even if he is sitting, remains sitting for many hours.
Negative Symptoms
1. Affective Plattening
This symptom is usually also called Flat Face which means that the patient’s face has no emotions and becomes less expressive.
2. Alogia
In this sign, the patient’s communication is very low, even if sometimes you ask him a question, he gives a very short answer.
3. Avolition
In this symptom, the patient’s ability to take action decreases, he does not do anything.
4. Lake of Pleasure in Everyday Life
They have no interest in the daily activities of life.
5- Cognitive Symptoms
In this, the patient’s ability to focus on anything is impaired, his memory is affected and decision-making ability is impaired, orientation is impaired, calculation is impaired.