SCHIZOPHRENIA

SCHIZOPHRENIA:

• a long-term mental disorder of type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion and behaviour
• difficulties with thought process
• most common psychiatric disorder - 3 in 100 people in the UK

CAUSES

• mother bleeding throughout pregnancy
• head injury as a child
• brain development- small changes in brain cells
• a virus during pregnancy

SYMPTOMS

• hallucinations- hearing voices
• not making sense- incoherence
• delusions
• drifting between ideas
• hyper active or cationic (not moving)
  
• flat effect

P.I.E.S.F

PHYSICAL

• risk of suicide- hearing voices such as drive someone to harm themselves
• lack of energy
• change in sleep pattern
• self-harm

INTELLECTUAL

• confusion - not…