SCHIZOPHRENIA: NATURE OR NURTURE

THESIS STATEMENT:
Schizophrenia is a devastating disorder with disastrous causes,
tragic effects and has very little treatment that Schizophrenics need to overcome to have some
sort of mental control over their lives.
Introduction
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects almost all of the five senses, but most
commonly it manifests as auditory hallucination, paranoid or bizarre delusions, disorganized
thinking and speech, and social dysfunction.
This is a clinical syndrome of variable, but profoundly disruptive, psychopathology that
involves cognition, emotion, perception, and other aspects of behavior. The expression of these
manifestations varies across patients and over time, but the effect of the illness is always severe
and is usually long-lasting.
I.

PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA AS A DISORDER

A. Common signs and symptoms affecting person with schizophrenia
B. Schizophrenics: inability to perform activities of daily living

II.

SCHIZOPHRENIA: BIOLOGICAL CAUSE

A. Genetics of schizophrenia
B. Dopamine hypothesis

III.

SCHIZOPHRENIA: ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSE

A. Stress
B. Abnormal brain structures

IV.

COPING MECHANISM

Conclusion
Understanding of the disorder may give us knowledge on the proper handling of such
person with schizophrenia. Reducing the exposure to such believed causes of the disease may
help in preventing the onset of the disease.
We can conclude that schizophrenia as a disruptive disease should be clearly understood.
With our help in the treatment of this psychiatric disorder, by being part of the support system,
person with this disorder can possibly cope with such signs and symptoms if not rehabilitated.