Ok. To be honest i have only met one person in my entire life that had schizophrenia, and boy was i in for a big surprise. In the church that i attend i always notices this really quite girl that would sometimes be a sweetheart and then to other sundays she hated the whole word. I remember, one time it started raining and she stepped out side and kneeled down and started worshiping "something". All this was very new to me and had no idea of what was happening to her. Until her mom, decided to tell us her testimony and what it was like living with a daughter that is a danger to others. I only recall bits and pieces, but from what i remember she was exhausted of trying to please her daughter. When she started going to church she was very happy and thought it was a breakthrough in her life. She started having more problems with her, she said that in the middle of the night her daughter Mary* would go outside and just walk for hours, she had also tried taking her own life before. Mary had auditory hallucinations that tell her to do radial actions and do things that can harm others and herself. On time i recall trying to say hi to her, and she would not let me near her. To this day i do not know what ever happened to mary, but her matters still attends church and had this deep hope that she might change for the better.
Schizophrenia is a very delicate disorder and until this day research and psychologist still do not find a solid link into as why it develops in the individuals. Sure the text mentions several ideas on how the person might of developed it, but still not no one can reached a permanent reason. People with the disorder may hear voices other people don't hear. They may believe other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. This can terrify people with the illness and make them withdrawn or extremely agitated. People with schizophrenia may not make sense when they talk. They may sit for hours without moving or talking. Sometimes people with schizophrenia seem perfectly fine until they talk about what they are really thinking.
In the video your about to see, you will witness a person that lost his mind to paranoid schizopherinia and with it lost his whole family and not is confined to live a solitary life away from his children and wife. You will get to hear both sides of the person and how it has affected them immensely.
As long as i can remember my friends and I would always tease each other when our mood shifted from one moment to another, usually when a boyfriend would make us sad or our parents would get on our last nerves, from not getting our way in a certain situation calling each other bipolar was normal and we had no clue what it even was. I even remember calling my friends brother childish and spoiled because he would get into his little tantrums and give a lot of attitude. Until one day my friend got the courage to tell me he was Bipolar. I felt horrible for thinking all this negative things about him, I just didn't have the knowledge to distinguish it from original and abnormal. That is a huge problem, many of use this term because we have sudden mood changes and can't find just the right word for it, other than hormonal or bipolar. The truth is many Americans struggle with this disorder including Camp Rock Star Demi Lovato, we have to get we acquitted with this disorder to avoid any stereotypes. Bipolar (Manic Depressive Disorder) is one of the sub branches of depression and it consists of both depression and mania. "Mania is characterized by
restless activity, excitement, laughter, self-confidence, rambling speech, and loss of inhibitions," as the textbook stated. There are also two types of Bioplar disorder, bipolar disorder type I is accompanied with manic episodes and type II is less severe with mild manic phases also known as hypomania. "Families can more easily accept schizophrenia, to understand that it is an illness. But when a person is sometimes very productive, then becomes unreasonable or irrational, it wreaks more havoc on the family. It seems more like bad behavior, like they won't straighten up," said Micheal Aronson M.D. Treatment for Bipolar Disorder varies depending on the person and intensity, many used to treat this disorder include Lithium ( most commonly used) , Anticonvulsants, antipsychotic drugs, Benzodiazepines, ECT, and antidepressants. To help distinguish Bipolar Disorder for mood swings search for the following:
Remember Bipolar Disorder focused on the severity and duration
Is disrupting life completely?
Are the actions that the person is taking drastic or out of the norm?
This a is quite an interesting story, this past Saturday I came to school to get together with a group to wok on an assignment. We left pretty late, so my friend decided to walk me to my car, there was not a single soul in the hallways, and I kept on freaking my friend out with spooky stories. Suddenly it got quite, then out if no where I hear this loud peircing sound, looked back and screamed from the bottom of my lungs! My friend just stood their puzzeled at my actions, and insisted me to stop. As i was running i kept thing, "stop stop stop, its no big deal", but It was as if my brain wasn't getting the message and was reacting to the loud noise not taking into consideration that there was no danger. The loud noise just turned to be the sprinkeler system going off, and yes, i know that it is not scary at all, but I was internally in the attach and escape stage. My friend of course was dying of laughter and said she had never see me run that fast; my sympathetic system was doing its thing! The fasincating thing about all of this that makes me so confindent that our body will do anything to alert us of danger or sometimes may misinterpurt danger, is the fact that, i had already looked back and known it wasn't an asultant, it was just water, but my brain could not interpert the message and reacted on its first instinct.
The startle relex can be seen all the way back to a babies reaction to a loud noise, and is usually the sudden recation gauges of fear and anxiety. According to the book, your current mood or situation modifies your reaction. Since I was already tense before my stratle reflex kicked in, my response was more vigorous. Take for example, the feeling you get when you know someone is near or watching but not sure who it is, you get up to see what it might be, and BAM! you little brother jumps out of nowhere to scare the heck out of you. You have the consious that he is no danger, but you cant seem to have contorol over you reaction. That is your startle relfex in action! The amygala is important for leaning what to fear. Since I had not learned how to react in that particular situation, I responded the only way I knew....RUUUNN!!
There this little portion of our brain that controld how we may react to unexpected events, it is known as the amygdala, which enchances the starle reflex, its axons the extend to the midbrain that relay information to the pons are a big attribute in controlling the stralte reflex.
