Articles on Schizophrenia - Page 3
Madness Made Plain: Henry’s Demons
Henry’s Demons is what madness is all about. Patrick Cockburn, war correspondent for The Independent in London, writes this book about another war — the war against schizophrenia within...
Playing the Genetic Lottery
In her first novel, Playing the Genetic Lottery, Terri Morgan tells the story of Caitlin Kane, a young woman whose parents and sibling suffer from schizophrenia. The novel is...
Schizophrenia Basics: Delusions, Hallucinations & Onset
Delusions & Hallucinations Are Common in Schizophrenia One of the most obvious kinds of impairment caused by schizophrenia involves how a person thinks. The individual can lose much of...
Antipsychotic Medications
Medications for Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders A person who is psychotic is out of touch with reality. People with psychosis may hear “voices” or have strange and illogical ideas...
What’s the Difference Between a Delusion and a Hallucination?
Delusions are a symptom of some mental disorder, such as
The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry
The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by UK-based journalist Jon Ronson (famous for the book-turned-movie The Men Who Stare at Goats) starts out with a mystery....
January First: A Child’s Descent into Madness and Her Father’s Struggle to Save Her
While riding in a car with her father, young Jani Schofield tells her dad, “I don’t want to go to the hospital, but I think I need to.” She...
The Differences Between Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder
Sometimes people confuse three mental disorders, only one of which could be referred to as “common” within the population — bipolar disorder (also known as manic-depression), schizophrenia, and multiple...
Living with Schizoaffective Disorder
Being schizoaffective is like having manic depression and schizophrenia at the same time. It has a quality all its own though which is harder to pin down. Manic depression...
Silent Voices
The book Silent Voices is an intriguing story about how a family dealt with mental illness and how a lack of support from professionals caused a family to endure...
OCD and Hearing Voices
While I think we’ve come a long way in terms of the stigma attached to brain disorders, we still have so far to go. Case in point: How many...
All About Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia occurs in about 1 percent of the general population. That means that more than 3 million Americans suffer from the illness. The disorder manifests itself in a...
Living with Schizoaffective Disorder, Part 2
The Heebee-Jeebies Be careful when you wrestle with monsters, lest you thereby become one. For, if you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you....
How a Bully Is Made
The short- and long-term harm done to bullying victims has received much attention lately. The complex web of factors which go into creating bullies are less often discussed. Every...
Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift In Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis
If madness, or psychosis, is just a result of a physical defect in the brain, then it makes sense to devote little effort to understanding the experiences of mad...
