PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dependent Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Catatonia

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Always on the need for a mission. Need to be part of a movement. Medication has helped with delusions and keeping him safe. Affects 1% of the population in the earth. Affects women and men equally (inaccurate) but onset conditions appear earlier for men than in women. After every episode it becomes more difficult to return to a regular state. Half of all schizophrenic"s attempt suicide and about 1/10th succeed. Psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion and behavior. Disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect and bizarre disturbances in motor activity. Most severe- because it"s more difficult to cope with. It puts both self and others at risk. Schizophrenia most common in men *, typically found in adults sometimes teen. Earlier onset conditions in men earlier than in women. Acute episodes- are characterized by positive symptoms also known as psychotic symptoms.

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