Coming out of the last blog entry, a Q&A with two esteemed psychiatrists, I offer a peer's perspective. At the 2008 NAMI convention, Milt Greek, who self-identifies as a "schizophrenic," lectured on Schizophrenia: Thinking and Feeling. He gave us an inside view of what goes on in the head of someone in the throes of psychosis. A computer programmer, he's lived with the illness for 25 years.
Milt covered three therapies in his talk: work in psychosis, work in early recovery, and...
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Around 40 percent of people with schizophrenia will have the paranoid type. This is one of five sub-types of schizophrenia. Paranoid... Read more »
Delusions of Paranoia and Grandeur are common among those of us with schizophrenia. These are generally constructed from materials at... Read more »
Today's focus will be on the revisions to the DSM for the schizophrenia category. The DSM V is set for release in May 2013. On the Mental... Read more »
The topic will be negative symptoms of schizophrenia, called this because they take away from or reduce functioning. Negative symptoms... Read more »
Robin Cunningham holds a Bachelors degree in Zoology from the University of Washington. After graduate studies in psychology at Washington and The... Read more »
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Paranoid schizophreniaSymptomsPeople with paranoid schizophrenia may have mistaken beliefs (delusions) that one or more people are plotting against... Read more »
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Schizoid personality disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has a lifelong pattern of indifference to others and social... Read more »
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Hebephrenic schizophrenia; Disorganized schizophrenia Symptoms Active behavior, but in an aimless and not constructive way ... Read more »
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Schizophrenia may have a variety of symptoms. Usually the illness develops slowly over months or years. Like other chronic illnesses, schizophrenia... Read more »
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