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Schizophrenics Communication

Introduction

Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness which has affected 1% of the population, regardless of sex, social class or educational level. It manifests itself along the adolescence, with its effervescence around the 20 years. The individual affected by this diseases show odd behaviors (withdrawal, social isolation, abandonment of self-image) in adolescence, among them the communication is considered to be one of the most serious issue, along with poverty both the content and the discourse (Schultz & Andreasen, pp. 1425-1430). This essay focuses on the communication problems of schizophrenic and their divergence towards non-verbal communication.

Discussion

In the case of schizophrenia, the person who suffers experiences a distortion of the thoughts and feelings. What characterizes schizophrenia is having an overall impairment in the person, so the sufferer begins to feel, think and speak differently as did before. The person can begin to be more isolated strange, one can avoid going out with friends, little or too much sleep, talking to himself or laugh for no apparent reason (although these have not because they occur in all patients. Schizophrenia is a surprisingly common disease with an estimated risk over the life of 1 in 100 people; this risk appears to be largely independent of socioeconomic and cultural level. In the male the age of onset is between 20 and 30 years, but the disease may appear in children as young as 8 years and the typical symptoms first manifest in the elderly.

Behavioral Abnormalities

Almost all of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia include behavioral abnormalities.

Some Behavioral Abnormalities

Negative Signs

Positive Signs

Poverty of speech

Incoherent speech

Affective flattening

Affective incongruity

Psychomotor retardation

Stereotyped

Social withdrawal

Positive Symptoms and Abnormal Experiences

The main positive symptoms associated with schizophrenia refer to anomalous experiences that the patient describes it best. By their nature psychotic experiences are so unusual that patients find it very difficult to describe.



Schizophrenic Communications

Language and speech of schizophrenia have been studied more than any other characteristic. The things they say patients can have all the rarity of positive symptoms, hallucinations and delusions, but unlike them, can be studied directly. Some schizophrenics say things incomprehensible but fascinating. Like the other signs and symptoms of schizophrenia, abnormalities of language naturally fall into groups positive and negative. The poverty of speech and poverty of content of speech are obviously "negative", while almost all other features, such as derailment and incoherence, are abnormal by their presence and therefore positive (Murphy, Chung & Mcgorry, pp. 25-32).

Explanation of the Signs and Symptoms According to Dr. Frith

Dr. Frith has proposed that there are 3 main abnormalities responsible for critical signs and symptoms. In summary, the inability to generate spontaneous acts (volunteers can lead to:

Poverty Action

Perseveration

Inappropriate action

The inability to control voluntary intentions can lead to alien control delusions, some hallucinations and thought insertion. The inability to control the beliefs and intentions of others leads to delusions of reference, paranoid delusions, incoherence and certain kinds of hallucinations in the third person.

Warning Signs

Most common changes that can reach impairments ...