Hector Ferreira
Eleanor Lurye
Psychobiology G250
29 May 2015 The Darkness Behind Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is slowly evolving more and more into the common world. Schizophrenia is said to be a stern, incessant disabling brain disease. It is alleged that roughly 1 percent of the country’s population is to develop schizophrenia in the duration of their lifetime. That’s close to 2 million American’s suffering each year, and it is conjectured to grow in numbers. While schizophrenia determinates both men and women with equal potency, it more so often appears former in men. For men it appears as early as their late teens, while for woman it is seen as early on as their twenties and early thirties. People with the disease suffer life changing…show more content… Due to those factors it leaves the patient frightened and alert. A lot of schizophrenics have trouble with their speech and their behavior can be out of the ordinary. In other words it can be incomprehensible and muddled. There are currently treatments for this disease, but a cure is yet to be exposed. Sadly in present day, with the current treatments and technology, it is stated that “No more than one in five people recover thoroughly.”( Dvey-Aharon) That is just a devastating number, but with the current inevitability and push for a cure, there is a good chance that can be a five out of five. From all the websites available to me it is seen that research is currently on the way to safer and new medications as well as getting the justification of schizophrenia. Methods of understanding genetics, and the…show more content… I work for the Garden Grove Police Department, so you can only imagine the kind of calls I receive. The most recent call I had of a person with schizophrenia was at a target. The man was causing a disturbance running up and down isles knocking things off the shelf stating they were after him. The gentleman was in his late forties, with a foil on his head. At the point when I was able to calm the man down and speak to him he cried to me saying to let him go because they would catch him. I asked “Who is after you”, he then said “The Terminator”. This was a huge shock to me; every question I asked the man he answered with a fairytale answer. I initially thought the man could have been on a non awardable high. I then remembered schizophrenic people have these kinds of hallucinations, and after a few further questions It was safe for me to assume this man had the disease. Before releasing him,(once he was back to reality) I asked if he had any medications he must take and told me in sadness he could no longer afford
