PSYCHOSES

PSYCHOSES

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Who am I ???????

My name is Karen and i am 21 years of age, i was diagnosed with Schitzophrenia a year ago after suffering many positive and negative symptons for many of years, hearing voices, halucinations, self harming and feeling withdrawn.

After a visit to my doctor i was transfered to the Mental Health Department where i had acsess to a Psychiatrist and a CPN.

I have been on Olanzapine and Aripiprazole 15mg tabletss which have helped reduce the symtoms

People with schizophrenia do not have a "split personality," or an idiosyncratic way of thinking which is correctable through psychoanalysis. People experiencing an acute episode of schizophrenia have a sudden onset of severe psychotic symptoms. To be "psychotic" means to be out of touch with reality, or unable to separate real from unreal experience. People with this disease can experience periods of distorted sense of reality or ability to think and also hallucinations and delusions. People with schizophrenia sometimes exhibit an emotion that is inconsistent with his or her speech or thoughts. Or they may show "blunted" or "flat" affect