Schizophrenia was not always known as this. In the late 1800's a French physician by the name of Benedict Morel first began to study this unusual mental disorder. His studies and findings carried over to another psychiatrist by the name of Emil Kraeplin. Emil Kraeplin began his study of this disease in the late 1800's to the early 1900's. He came to give this disorder its first name of "Dementia Praecox." He believed it to be a degeneration of the brain that started out in early childhood which in time would lead to the total deterioration of the person's personality and mind. Kraeplin felt that all of the symptoms involved with this disease were traced to a physical abnormality or disease. A few years after Kraeplin called this disorder Dementia Praecox, a Swiss psychologist, Eugene Bleuler, decided to challenge Kraeplin's view on

People who suffer from this mental disorder are always putting themselves and others in jeopardy of injury. Paranoid schizophrenics are not too difficult to categorize, but are extremely complicated to treat. When they finally do get treatment, most of the time the patient can live a normal and functional life. If at any time the patient stops their medication or refuses to go to therapy, the patient can regress quickly back to the first stages of the disease, which includes the hallucinations. In the end, I think it all comes down to the willpower of the individual with the disease with whether or not they want to get help or remain the way they are. Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that needs to be treated immediately if one is diagnosed with it. Paranoid schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, undifferentiated schizophrenia, and catatonic schizophrenia can all destroy one's mind, life, social being, and body. Each one of these cases is severe in their own way, from being paranoid constantly to not moving a muscle for hours at a time. I say that the only way a person with schizophrenia can get by in life is through support from their friends and family members and also the will and determination of the individual to want to overcome the disease. This way the person diagnosed with this can live a semi-normal or fully normal and functional life.

this disease and felt that a more appropriate name to call it would be schizophrenia. He said that this disease was a splitting of an individual's psychological function. He also felt that people could recover from this disease to live a normal life. Another thing that he felt was true about this disease was that it was a group of disorders rather than just one major mental dysfunction. (Abnormal Psychology)

Schizophrenia has many different signs and symptoms. Due to the wide variety of symptoms, psychologists h

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