Sak Mental Illness

Many people suffer from several different psychology disorders/diseases, that interfere with their mindset, changing their ability to adapt to their environment and to communicate properly with the people around them. Disorders like bipolar and major depression have different levels/stages associated with them, both levels have their own challenges to them. Psychological disorders can be acquired during childhood, but others are acquired during adulthood. All Psychological disorders need triggers to start like the mere mentioned of the disease and or an environmental factor that causes it to begin. The core of Psychological diseases start in the brain since most to all Psychological disorders affect how that person thinks. Disorders like Schizophrenia
She describes her positive symptoms, which adds certain behaviors that normal people don’t have, in her essay with much detail and imaging. She talked about the Delusions and Hallucinations she had in dealing with Schizophrenia. Delusions are falsely believing something is there, but there’s nothing in sight; Hallucinations are false sensory perceptions experienced without an external source (“Psychology in your life, p.520”). Saks describes how her mind put together experiences like, quoting she had killed hundreds and thousands of people, as well as saying that she had seen a man with a raised knife in his hand (“Elyn Saks”). She also gives an example of a Hallucination she had, describing hearing nuclear explosions going off in her head (“Elyn Saks”). In her college years Sake describes her first episode with Schizophrenia, it was during a Memo Assignment she and her classmates had to do. This part of her life when dealing with her disorder, pointed out more positive symptoms of Schizophrenia, it describes her disorganized speech and behavior. She said that when she was in the library she couldn’t sit still, so suddenly, she decided to go the roof of her library to work on her assignment with her friends as they followed. She started to format words together into weird sentences as stated in the video “Pat use to say that” “have you killed anyone” and she also began to sing to herself on the roof (“Elyn Saks”). Her friends at first thought she was on drugs. Her teacher himself took her the hospital when her episode of mania got to him, she was put in a psychic ward for a while, but of course couldn’t finish her Memo assignment, because of this disorder it completely interfered with her daily life, which is a negative symptom that takes away behavior a regular person