Symptoms And Treatment Of Schizophrenia - 1553 Words

Abstract Many people around the world may have Schizophrenia in their genes and won’t even realize it until it’s too late. Stress can trigger the gene and cause the person to become schizophrenic. Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that causes a person to behave, think, and see the world differently from other people. There are many different ways to treat the disorder but there is no cure. When treated properly, many people with schizophrenia are able to enjoy life and function within their families, friends, and loved ones. If you don’t treat this condition, you could possibly harm yourself, harm others or worse, end your life. With the help of doctors, therapist, and loved ones, anything is possible to treat. Schizophrenia The†¦show more content†¦Emile Kraepelin in 1887. Dr. Kraepelin named the disorder â€Å"Dementia Praecox† which is early dementia. Reasons why he named it that way was because he mostly focused on young adults who had dementia. Eugene Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist, coined the word schizophrenia in the early 1900’s. He later changed the name as the name Dr. Kraepelin gave the disease was the incorrect term for the disorder. The word schizophrenia is derived from the Greek root words Schizo which means split and phrene which is mind. Bleuler documented schizophrenia’s â€Å"positive† and â€Å"negative† symptoms – terms which we still use today. Kraepelin and Bleuler both subdivided schizophrenia into different categories depending on the symptoms and prognosis. There are five subtypes of schizophrenia. The five types of diagnosis are paranoid type, disorganized type, catatonic type, undifferentiated type, and residual type. Many pe ople before who had this disorder were considered crazy, people who shouldn’t live outside a four wall bedroom from a hospital. Many people with the disorder were having therapy, insulin shock, frontal lobotomy as well as other crude neurosurgical procedures. Most of these treatments caused the patients to die as the procedure induces epilepsy, serious surgical infections as well as severe brain damage. During the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period witchcraft and demonic possession were considered to be the root of emotional