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? asked in HealthMental Health · 8 years ago

What Is Schizophrenia?

so i'm on youtube and I see a video called "Girl With Schizophrenia Loses Touch With Reality Part 1 " and I don't know what "Schizophrenia" can someone explain what Schizophrenia is?

VIDEO LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjqRYgICgdU

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  • 8 years ago
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    It's a mental illness; people have reasons to believe a person is telling them what to do. Like a person is in their head & they control them. The "person" could tell them to do anything, even to harm themselves. It's quite sad, actually.

  • 8 years ago

    Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder when a person usually experiences hallucinations, delusions and extreme paranoia which makes them lose contact with reality and not understand what is real and what is not as they believe the hallucinations and delusions are real. Other symptoms include disorganised speech, catatonia, social withdrawal, depression, self harm, suicidal and/or homicidal thoughts, insomnia, anxiety. These symptoms have to be on going for a full 6 months before being diagnosed with schizophrenia. People who have schizophrenia usually have no idea that they are ill in any kind of way and often deny that anything is wrong with them.

    My friend has schizophrenia and it started when she would say that everything tasted funny and decided she was not going ot eat anything anymore because people were trying to poison her. Then I noticed she would talk to herself in her room even though no one was there, she would sit and stare into space and randomly laugh for hours. She withdrew herself from us (her friends) and claimed we only wanted to be her friend to get inside her head and kill her and that she had new friends now. Her new friends were not real, they were voices and hallucinations in her head. She was constantly on edge and really paranoid, sometimes I would talk to her online and she would say she didn't know me but other days would say things like her friend told her I was bad and she had to stay away from me. The last time I saw her before she was hospitalised she had not slept in days and looked very tired and was very edgey and paranoid, she could not keep eye contact from fear of being killed. She had cuts from her wrist to elbow on each arm which were self inflicted and they all needed stitches. I took her home and told her parents and left. Next thing she was in her room threatening to kill herself and her parents with a knife, she was then arrested and sectioned for just under a year getting better. This all went on for 8 months before she got the help.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Schizophrenia is a psychosis disease. Its basically when someone has sudden anger spasms. Its not a joke and is a very sad and serious thing. If you want to know more, look it up on Wikipedia or google

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Demons.

    sorry, but it's demons, it really is, no joke, it's demons.

    Im not kidding, it's demons.

    No shyte, it's really demons.

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