Schitzophrenia And Other Mental Disorders Essay, Research Paper
Schitzophrenia and Other Mental Disorders
By: Michael Dugger and Amanda Peachrin
Mental Disorders
The term mental disorder means psycological and behavioral syndromes
that deviate signicantly from those typical of human beings enjoying good mental
health. All that mumbo jumbo means that a person with a mental disorder was a
few cards short of a full deck. This is probably not the persons fault that
they are like this they were just born this way. These people are not all a
like. They are not even in exact classes because all of the classes have not
been seperated yet. In most cases a normal person that has no disorders is
afraid of these type of people. This is because they do not want to turn out
the way these people are. A common example of a mental disorder is down
syndrome. There was a television program in the early 90’s that featured a boy
that had to live with this terrifying disorder. This show was very
inspirational for all people with disorders. The boy’s name was Corky who
fought all aspects of the disorder. Them being from physical triumphs to just
everyday kids harrassing him at school. The show was taken off the air in 1993
because of sponsers.
Records of types of disorders are unknown along with many of other
records of treatments to people inflicted with a disorder. This is mainly
because in the early 1900’s people thought that people with disorders were just
stupid and they did not investigate further into the matter. The quanity of
people that have a disorder is unknown. There is an estimated guess that 15% of
the U.S. population has some sort of disorder but that is not factual. This is
because the survey people only can estimate from the people who check
theirselves into a institution, the ones who do so make up 3% of the 15%
estimation. The U.S. in 1990 spent an estimated 148 billion on treating mental
diorders.
Childhood Disorders
Several Mental disorders are evident first in infancy, childhood, and
adolescence.
Mental retardation is characterized by the inability to learn normally
and to become as an independent and socially responsible as others of the same
age in the same culture. A retarded person go through a lot of emotional
problems because of the society making fun of these people. A retarded person
has an IQ of less than 70.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder includes conditions marked by
inappropiate lack of attention, by impulsiveness, and by hyperactivity, in which
the child has difficulty organizing and completing work, is unable to stick to
activities or follow directions, and is excessively restless.
Anxiety disorder include fear of leaving home and parents, excessive
shrinking from contact with strangers, and excessive, unfocused worrying and
fearful behavior.
Persuasive developement disorders are characterized by distortions in
several psychological functions, such as attention, perception, reality testing,
and motor movement. An example is infantile autism, a condition marked by
unresponsiveness to other people, bizarre responses, and gross inability to
communicate to the others in the world.
Paranoid Disorder
The central feature of the paranoid disorders in a persons dilusion, for
instance that he or she is being persecuted or conspored against. In other form,
the dilusion consists of unreasonsably jealousy. the person maybe resentful,
angry, sometimes violent, socially an outcast or isolated, seclusive, and
eccentric. The disorder usually starts in middle or late adult life and can be
seriously disrupting to social and maritalrelationship.
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety is the predominant symptom in two conditions: panic disorder and
generalized anxiety disorder.
In phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorders, also considered anxiety
disorders, fear is experienced when an individual tries to master other symptoms.
A phobia is an irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation
that is so intense that it interferes with everday life. Obsessions are
repetitive thoughts, images, ideas, or impulses that make no sense to the person.
He or she can fear being unable to avoid committing a violent act, for example,
or worry over whether some small duty has been performed. Compulsions are
repetitive behaviors performed dutifully to try to ward off some future event.
examples of such behavior include repeated washing of the hands or counting and
recounting ones belongings.
Schitzophrenia
The specific term for a shcitzo is a group of serios disorders beginning
usually in adolescence or young adulthood. This mental disorder has a lot of
different symptoms but the main ones are diturbances in thought, perception
emotion and interpersonal relations. What this disorder basically means is that
the person is split minded but by no means mean they have a split personality.
Split personality means that the one person acts like two people or several
people. This disorder always occurs before a person hits middle age. All
scientists agree that there is no single cause for schitzophrenia. What is
known is that LSD is one of the major causes. There is a better chance for an
offspring from a parent that has the disease is more likely to get the disorder
than any other Joe thats a parent does not have this horrible disorder.
Schitzophrenia is has a greater chance in twins more than a single baby. The
chances increase to about 35 to 58%. And that statistic takes me to my example
of schitzophrenia. His name is Jimmy Sanders. If a person knew him well like I
do they would just call him Cat. He is definetly a Schitzo. He dresses like a
hippy! His attire is made up of the following: Red or black bandana, black
straight leg jeans, white under shirt, usually a red, black, or green silk shirt
buttoned half way up, jean jacket or trench coat, black combat boots, wallet
with a chain, and the best of all a red silk sash. Cat also has many accesories
that he struts with they are: Boom box, metal detector, and the coolest bike
ever seen it is a very highly modified shwinn. It has a long, skinny body like
the Cat, with a 10-speed tire on the back with a small scooter tire on the front.
The exterior has a shiny chrome finish, the bike also has some sort of skull
mounted to the front of it. Now if anyone would own that much weird stuff they
have to have a few screws lose in their head. from long days of observing Jimmy
and his behaviors I have noticed that the definition of a schitzo sums Jimmy
right up. One day one can talk to Cat and not have no problems with him. Like
one day I was sitting on a buddy of mines front porch waiting for Cat to walk by.
Finally Jimmy walked by and I said, “Hey.” Cat said,”Got any guns for sell?” My
buddy replied,”No, I just bought a 357.” Cat said, “That all get the job done.
Now that was a pleasant conversation with Jimmy. So that scenario represents
what I will call Bluegill #1. Now deep down in Jimmy’s heart there is a mean
side. One day down at the old football field in the small town of Clinton
Earnie Simpson was doing a little running. Cat strutted down to the field and
started doing some detecting with his fine metal detector. Earnie went over to
Cat and said, “Finding anything?” Jimmy grabbed his knife and waved it in
Earnie’s face. Cat roared,”You know there is a jail in this town. Earnie
said,”Uh, yal.” Cat screemed, “Ya wanted go there?” Earnie replied, “What for?”
“Harrassment” roared Cat. Earnie took of because he thought Cat was going to
kill him with his knife. Now that situation showed the mean side of Jimmy
Sanders. That mean side I will call Bluegill #2. So the short term for
schitzophrenia is Split Minded and that is definetly Jimmy. Jimmy has two
mindes the nice Cat (Bluegill #1) is when Jimmy is seen with not so weird
clothes on and he usually is not talking to himself or nonliving objects. Jimmy
mean mind (Bluegill #2) is when one sees Jimmy talking to trees and other
nonliving objects. This is known because when schitzos’ are really messed in
the head on one certain day they are meaner than usuall. Schitzophrenia can be
worse one day more than an other. So from all that I was trying to get that
schitzophrenia occurs in twins more than single offsprings that there is some
chance that the hippy might just possibly have an identicle twin. That would be
a bless to Clinton if there was another Jimmy struttin’ around town. So next
time you see Cool Cat say hello. He is not a bad guy he just has a few problems
in the head.
Most mental disorders can be treated and in most cases there can be a
85% recovery. The only problem is to convince the person into taken medication
because they think they are fine. In some cases people with a disorder think
that the goverment is making them take the drugs.