Schizophrenia And Afghanistan

Schizophrenia has emerged as one the diseases that are affecting our society at a large extent in modern days. Schizophrenia affects life of a person suffering from this disorder in thousands of ways, effects and severity of the problem varies from person to person who is suffering from schizophrenia.

The disease is considered to affect teens and those who are around 20-22 year of age, but in reality, this disorder can affect people of any age and sex and also it does not depend upon the geographical environment. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder in which a person suffering from it experiences delusions, hallucinations and some thought disorders. A person suffering from this disorder seems to have lost in the world, which is far away from reality, they experience some abnormal things and their behavior changes from normal to something that is abnormal.

Many people believe that "Split Personality" is same as Schizophrenia, but this issue is still under arguments between people who believe that both are same and those who believe there is no relation in both the diseases.

The symptoms of this disorder are as follows:

First symptom is delusion. A person suffering from Schizophrenia experiences something that is not real and which he/she cannot explain in words. He/she believes that something is happening around him/her. People around patient can easily conclude that the patient is undergoing some abnormal experience. Patient may suffer from something unknown or it may happen that he/she may experience happy moments, which are out of this world.

The second symptom of schizophrenia is hallucinations. In hallucination there are experiences such as people hear someone screaming or someone calling them by their name, they smell something without the presence of it in reality, see something happening in front of them and it gets off just in a fraction of second and there is no clue of anything happened etc. Patient suffering from schizophrenia experience something happening or hear some voices which either talk to them or want them to follow it.

People suffering from schizophrenia experience that some external force is trying to control them, which can be anything such as extra terrestrial life or spiritual force. Patient of schizophrenia show no specific behavior pattern, they may start crying at one instance and at the other they may be found laughing. Schizophrenia affects thinking ability of people suffering from it at a high extent, it also causes sudden up rise or fall in emotional levels of the patient.

People suffering from schizophrenia may start laughing or crying without any reason, they sometimes show no response to emotional situations. The lifestyle of patient changes in many ways, they display numbness

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