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As many mental unrests, the schizophrenia is a difficult illness to identify. It is often to the setting to recognize trouble and to speak of it. But numerous received ideas circulate on the signs and the demonstrations of this problem. Doctissimo sums up the symptoms of a very studied illness but again known pain. The schizophrenia is a trouble that touches the organization of the thought. Its demonstrations are very various. The main symptoms are these: Of the unrests of the thought: The thoughts are disorganized, disjointed, maladjusted, accelerated or slow. The patient doesn't succeed in hierarchizing information and to synthesize what he wants to say. Of the deliriums: The raving ideas are the fact that the person believes false things. It can don different aspects: to believe that one is the reincarnation of a famous person, that one speaks to the extraterrestrials, that one is victim of a plot. It is extremely difficult to convince the schizophrenic that his ideas are false. Of the hallucinations: Some auditory hallucinations exist mainly (to hear the voices or the inexistent sounds). They are present at 2/3 the patients. But he can also have there some false perceptions to the sensory level (impression to be touched when there is not anybody for example), visual, olfactory or gustatory. Of the negative emotions: One often meets a loss of interest, a lack of will, an absence of incentive. The patient closes again herself on himself. He can have the emotions that occur in an inappropriate manner there also (to laugh for no reason at all or at the time of a dramatic event for example). Of the unrests of the behavior: The patient can have of the moments of sharp agitation or unlike the states of stupor. He is going to have the attitudes or movements often exaggerated. In the cases of sharp crises, the minor aggressions and the violent acts can occur, but remain rare. Some self-mutilations can also occur and the suicidal crisis risk exists. All patients don't express all these symptoms, and the intensity varies according to people. It is besides why one speaks of schizophrenias to the plural. Of numerous false ideasNumerous received ideas circulate on the schizophrenia. Thus, one often believes that the patients endure all of the personality's division. However it is not generally the case. It is also current to think that the schizophrenic is violent and can become dangerous for his setting. Yet, the problems of aggressiveness rarely occur, and solely at the time of sharp crises. Besides, it is important not to forget that the schizophrenia remains an illness, that requires to this title a hold in medical charge, and that the only will of the patient or his change of environment won't be sufficient to solve the unrests. 2009-05-26
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