PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15.4: Amygdala, Flu Season, Chromosome
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In other cases, however, symptoms can begin and escalate very rapidly. There are many popular but misguided beliefs regarding schizophrenia. For example, people believe that people have schizophrenia when they have more than one personality; however, this is dissociative identity disorder (see module 15. 2). Nor is schizophrena solely an organic brain disease that only responds to medica- tion. In fact, schizophrenia is strongly affected by social factors such as family support and life events that cause stress. Delusional beliefs that one is being followed, watched, or persecuted and may also include delusions of grandeur or the belief that one has some secret insight or power or some other characteristic that makes one special. Thoughts, speech, behaviour and emotion that are poorly integrated and incoherent. People with disorganized schizophrenia may also show inappropriate, unpredictable mannerisms. Episodes in which a person remains mute and immobile- sometimes in bizarre positions- for extended periods.
