Mental Disorder Disease Known As Schizophrenia', Further Term Paper

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mental disorder disease known as "Schizophrenia', further exploration of the disease will be made based on the observation of the movie "I never promised you a rose garden" Comparison of Schizophrenia in the movies to Schizophrenia in real life will be made in the paper. "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" is the movie chosen to discuss these questions, which are as under:

How the character is portrayed to schizophrenia in real life?

Whether the actions in the movie are correct with reality or if Schizophrenia is different than the movie?

DESCRIPTION OF THE DISEASE 'SCHIZOPHRENIA':

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion. The term schizophrenia comes from the Greek words ? (schizo, split or divide) and (frenos, mind) and is best translated "shattered mind." Psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was first to make the distinction between what he called dementia praecox and other forms of madness. This classification was later renamed 'schizophrenia' by psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler as it became clear Kraeplin's name was not an adequate description of the conditions. More recently, it has been argued that schizophrenia is just one end of a spectrum of experience and behaviour, and everybody in society may have some such experiences in their life." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disease, which give rise to distorted and complexed behavior. The term schizophrenia was derived and evaluated from the Greek words and since then it has been used to denote 'shattered mind' although the real causes and factors, which give, rise to schizophrenia are not evaluated by the psychiatrists as yet. But they say that schizophrenia is the result of genetic disorders and it includes both negative and positive symptoms. It is regarded as the disorder of the brain because a person acts abnormally due to the presence of the mental disorder known as schizophrenia which emerges due to the lack of interaction between thought processes and perception.

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The discontinuity of the thought processes and perception give rise to attitudes, which are not normal, and thus, a person in such condition suffers from such disease. Some people also say that the individuals suffering from schizophrenia possess split personalities but this concept is not worthy enough to belief because the individuals who suffer from such disorders do not possess split personalities in fact their actions, attitudes and behaviors are all due to the mental disorders of mind.

COMAPRISON OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN THE MOVIES TO SCHIZOPHRENIA

IN REAL LIFE:

It has been observed that many filmmakers have also taken this subject to make movies based on schizophrenia. Amongst these films, the paper has chosen the movie never promised you a rose garden" in which a character of a girl named Deborah is described who was a 16-year-old Schizophrenic young Jewish girl, the story describes the events and circumstances, which were faced by this girl and the responses of this girl was shown in the movie. The movie has described the kind of attitudes and responses, which a patient of schizophrenia produces. The filmmaker has presented the views and opinions from Deborah's point-of-view and the audiences really gets into the situations and circumstances which Deborah faces.

The movie has presented her sickness, her stages of recovery and her conception of the world. The observation and analysis of the character shows that the disease, which is known as schizophrenia as pictured in the movie, is similar to the schizophrenia in real life. Practically speaking, a patient suffering from schizophrenia is unable to discriminate between the situations of real life and the situations of imagination. Such patients lack the ability to present their emotions….....

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