Question:
Paranoid Schizophrenia-Who does this remind you of?
Answer:
Paranoid schizophrenia is the most common type of schizophrenia in most
parts of the world. The clinical picture is dominated by relatively stable
(i.e persistent and unvarying), often paranoid delusions, usually
accompanied by hallucinations, particularly of the auditory variety, and
perceptual disturbances. Disturbances of affect, volition, and speech, and catatonic symptoms, are
not prominent.
The paranoid schizophrenic may appear otherwise fully functional, but is
plagued with impossible beliefs and wildly imagined fears.
Examples of the most common paranoid symptoms are:
1. delusions of persecution - such as beliving that Nazi psychologists are
using radio controlled bacteria to attack one's kidneys
2. delusions of reference, i.e. they believe unrelated events and
discussions pertain to them personally, and secret discussions and
documents relating to them are being held in secret by nefarious agencies
whose sole purpose is to persecute them.
3. delusions of exalted birth,, such as believing oneself to be a deity,
orrspring of a deity or a an exalted person, such as LRH, or that one is
the grandaughter of President Eisenhower, or one was born in a "secret
underwater base" called Chattanooga in the Great Salt Lake.
4. delusions of special mission, such as saving the earth from alien
invader forces, evil galactic emperors, or other imagined ills and woes,
such as "thetans" or "engrams" or a global conspiracy of psychologists and
psychiatrists. 5. delsuions of bodily changes, such as believing one has
been kidnapped and one's memory was wiped or altered, or that one's
kidneys are being destroyed by remote controlled bacteria, or that radio
impants have been placed in one's brain.
6. delusions of loss or jealousy, such as believing one's spouse was
kidnapped and murdered by government agents to persecute you and all
evidence of their existence removed and hidden away in places like
university libraries and government agfencies to which you send requests
for files on yourself that don't exist.
7. hallucinatory voices that threaten the patient or give commands, or
auditory hallucinations without verbal form, such as whistling, humming,
or laughing;
8. hallucinations of smell or taste, or of sexual or other bodily
sensations; visual hallucinations may occur but are rarely predominant.
9. Thought disorder may be obvious in acute states, but if so it does not
prevent the typical delusions or hallulcinations from being described
clearly.
10. Affect is usually less blunted than in other varieties of
schizophrenia, but a minor degree of incongruity is common, as are mood
disturbances such as irritability, sudden anger, fearfulness, and
suspicion.
11."Negative" symptoms such as blunting of affect and impaired volition
are often present but do not dominate the clinical picture.
12. Delusions can be of almost any kind of delusions of control,
influence, or passivity, but persecutory beliefs of various kinds are the
most characteristic.
13. The course of paranoid schizophrenia may be episodic, with partial or
complete remissions, or chronic.
14.In chronic cases, the florid symptoms persist over years and it is
difficult to distinguish discrete episodes.
15.The onset tends to be later in life than in the hebephrenic form of
schizophrenia, where the delusions lack coherent structure, or the
catatonic form, where psychomotor distrubances are the predominate
symptom.
Any religious leader? Almost anyone on ars. I'd have to say that everything you wrote is 100% "B.S." -- if you know
what I mean. anyone who's OSA'nonymous? ;-)) Can I make it more obvious -- HINT: She's nothing but good ol' "B.S."
The kind born under the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Yes it means that I am not a part of your little group, even though I
am a critic of Scientology. Yes, poor Babbless thinks she's the focal point of an evil universe full
of enemies out to get her, and lives with horrible fears and suspicions.
The sad part is her condition is very much treatable, but of course
paranoiacs don't believe they are unwell and that attempts to help them
are part of the plot to do them harm. It's a good argument for involuntary
treatment of paranoiacs, since they are incapable of forming a reasoned
judgement about either their condition or their options for treatment. Didn't you just lecture me that I shall not believe in Internet Boards
when I found out that Sirlaughsalot is a red neck and gamer? I never said that I am born under the GSL. It is an Internet lie.
EXPERTS DEBUNK THE DSM: Click here for experts' comments about the
lack of science in psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders.
Dr. Fred A. Baughman, Jr.
pediatric neurologist
http://www.adhdfraud.org
Dr. Mary Ann Block
author of No More ADHD
http://www.blockcenter.com
The late Dr. Loren Mosher
Psychiatrist, former Chief of the U.S.
National Institute of Mental Health
Studies of Schizophrenia
http://www.moshersoteria.com
Dr. Doris Rapp
Is This Your Child? Discovering and Treating Unrecognized Allergies in
Children and Adults
http://www.drrapp.com/
Dr. Thomas Szasz
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, author of the acclaimed The Myth of
Mental Illness and Manufacture of Madness
http://www.szasz.com
Dr. Julian Whitaker
Founder Whitaker Wellness Center
http://www.drwhitaker.com
Robert Whitaker
Science Writer, Author of Mad in America
http://www.madinamerica.com
You psych trolls are you stupid. Noesis recommends the malicious
website of Andreas Heldal Lund. He is friend with Lars Gule, a
terrorist, Arnie Lerma who is friend with Neo Nazis William White and
Willis Carto, with Dave Touretzky who has bomb instruction on the web
and is a porn guy, with Keith Henson who is a convicted hate criminal
and fugitive of justice, but what they do is of course not a mental
illness. Only people who use critic on him and his friends are mentally
ill.
