Psy 240 The Mind

Psy 240 The Mind

The Mind
Psychology 240
April 10, 2011
It has always been said that the mind is a terrible thing to waste, but in many cases this is not a choice. Not everyone can have the ideal situation when it comes to the mind that they have be dealt and so this is going to discuss a disorder that is more common than previously thought to be. There are many different disorders of the brain that are explained by different characteristics. The main on that we are going to discuss today is schizophrenic disorder.
Schizophrenia is known to be in a category of disorders called psychosis. Psychosis involves alterations in perception, thought, or consciousness. An individual that has these alterations many times makes incorrect references to reality based upon them. When an individual is able to understand the true reality then the products of their individual fantasy are no longer present. Of all of the psychosis disorders, schizophrenic disorders have the most severe impact on individuals live and on the health care system in general (Sarason, 1989, p. 311).   About 10 in every thousand people which is essentially 1% of the population will be give diagnosis of having schizophrenia (Sarason, 1989, p. 311).
There are many different characteristics of an individual that has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is thought to begin in early in life from late teens to early thirties. The behavioral characteristics of schizophrenia are loose associations, flat affect, bizarre delusions, alert, and not dazed or confused (Sarason, 1989, p. 311). I have found this to be very true. In working in a state mental facility there were many individuals that had a diagnosis of schizophrenia and they all had bizarre delusions.
A delusion is a false interpretation of reality that is unable to be shaken despite clear evidence to the contrary. There was a gentleman there that had delusion and he would be the one that I will never forget. There was one day that he was reading the...