Misconceptions About Schizophrenia

Mental illness has a large stigma around it that it is a made up feeling people use for attention. This is so far from the truth. Mental illness is a real proven pain. Thousands of doctors have proven this is something that must be treated or will only get worse. A cold would not go left untreated, but depression, bipolar disorder, or even schizophrenia can?
Schizophrenia is a brain disorder sometimes confused with multiple personality disorder. There are some similar things between the two disorders, but they are not the same thing. Another misconception about schizophrenia is that people with the disorder are violent when they are usually not at all. Schizophrenia’s symptoms are mainly getting hallucinations, delusions, hearing voices and
There is a total of 5 different subtypes. The 5 subtypes are catatonic, disorganized, paranoid, residual, and undifferentiated. Each subtype has slightly different symptoms and some are more severe than the other. A catatonic schizophrenia symptoms are usually restless, and they unintentionally copy other's movements. This is one of the less serious subtypes. With a the right medication and treatment, it can be resolved with days to a few weeks. Disorganized schizophrenia is when they have very disorganized speech and behavior. They also have a strange emotional expression. A residual schizophrenic is someone who is still showing some signs of the disorder, but don’t have any major showings of the disorder. Undifferentiated schizophrenia is when one has symptoms of schizophrenia, but they simply can be classified into one group. Finally, the most common type of schizophrenia is paranoid schizophrenia. This type you get hallucinations (usually noises that aren’t really there), and delusions. The voices can do things such as make threats towards the person or give them commands. The voices can even just do things like whistling or humming to completely drive the person crazy
They are judged because of disease they can not control. This can cause people to not seek treatment (or stop treatment). Another thing people have to deal with is not good health coverage for treatment for their illness. Health insurance companies were not even required to cover mental illnesses until just 2014. These diseases have been around for as long as man has, and we just started covering them four years ago. People who have been diagnosed with a mental illness are also subject to bullying. These victims are already going threw so much with this diagnosis without people reminding them about how they are different. Even though people who are diagnosed with mental illness really aren’t that different after all. 1 in 25 adults have a serious mental illness in the United States. That's about 9.8 million people in the United States alone living with a severe mental illness. Almost 60% of those adults did not receive any mental health help in the last year. Almost 50% of children with mental health illnesses have not received treatment either. About 1.1% of adults in the United States are living with schizophrenia. A person’s life does shorten dramatically if they are diagnosed with schizophrenia. Their lifespan is usually reduced by about 15 years. Most people with schizophrenia die from cardiovascular disease. When you are diagnosed with schizophrenia you are twice as likely