schizophrenia
Psychotic mental illness
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by distorted thinking, hallucinations, delusions, and withdrawal from reality.
Symptoms often include hearing voices, paranoid beliefs, and disorganized speech or behavior.
The word is frequently misused to mean split personality or internal conflict—the schizophrenia of American foreign policy—but the clinical condition involves psychosis, not multiple selves.
Perceptions without external cause
- delusionsFirmly held false beliefs
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
- catatoniaPsychiatric movement disorder
flat affect · anhedonia · thought disorder · word salad · voices · auditory · visual · persecutory
Identification of illness
- antipsychoticsDrugs treating severe mental disorders
- dopamineReward-linked neural messenger
- schizoaffectiveCombined psychotic and mood condition
- neurotransmittersChemical neural messengers
genetics · neurodevelopmental · comorbidity · prodromal · onset · remission · relapse · prognosis
Fragmented identity disorder
- dangerousApt to cause harm
- violentInvolving physical force
- unpredictableCannot be anticipated
- incurableCannot be healed
possessed · crazy · Jekyll and Hyde · horror tropes · misrepresentation · sensationalism
Lasting entire existence
- relapseReturn to former illness
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
persistent · debilitating · long-term · enduring · disability · supported living · institutionalization · community care
Therapeutic substance for illness
- psychotherapyTreatment through guided conversation
- CBTPsychological treatment abbreviation
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
support groups · adherence · compliance · outpatient · inpatient · psychosocial · intervention · case management
Unjust differential treatment
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
ostracism · marginalization · isolation · fear · misunderstanding · labeling · judgment · bias
hallucinations
Perceptions without external cause
- delusionsFirmly held false beliefs
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
catatonia · flat affect · anhedonia · thought disorder · word salad · voices · auditory · visual · persecutory · grandiosity
diagnosis
Identification of illness
- antipsychoticsDrugs treating severe mental disorders
- dopamineReward-linked neural messenger
- schizoaffectiveCombined psychotic and mood condition
neurotransmitters · genetics · neurodevelopmental · comorbidity · prodromal · onset · remission · relapse · prognosis · DSM
split personality
Fragmented identity disorder
- dangerousApt to cause harm
- violentInvolving physical force
- unpredictableCannot be anticipated
incurable · possessed · crazy · Jekyll and Hyde · horror tropes · misrepresentation · sensationalism
lifelong
Lasting entire existence
- relapseReturn to former illness
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
deterioration · persistent · debilitating · long-term · enduring · disability · supported living · institutionalization · community care · quality of life
medication
Therapeutic substance for illness
- psychotherapyTreatment through guided conversation
- CBTPsychological treatment abbreviation
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
recovery · support groups · adherence · compliance · outpatient · inpatient · psychosocial · intervention · case management · vocational
discrimination
Unjust differential treatment
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
- shamePainful awareness of failure
taboo · ostracism · marginalization · isolation · fear · misunderstanding · labeling · judgment · bias · social exclusion
- Brain Medicinebrain disorders, dementia, epilepsy, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
- Disabilitiesblind, paralysis, vision loss, developmental disability, hearing impairment
- Child Psychiatrychild psychiatrist, child psychiatry, child psychologist, child psychology, child mental health
- psychosishallucinations, psychosis, delusions, delusion, hallucination
- diseasescancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, influenza, measles
- mental healthpsychiatry, psychotherapy, mental illness, psychiatrist, therapist
schizophreniamental health
Emotional and cognitive well-being
sanity · neurotypicality · lucidity · normalcy · sound mind
schizophrenialucidity
Clearness of mind
groundedness · rationality · rational thinking · sound judgment · presence of mind
schizophreniadissociative identity disorder
Psychiatric condition with alternate identities
multiple personality disorder · neurosis · mood disorder · depression · anxiety disorder
- paranoid schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- schizophrenia treatmentMedical care for psychotic disorder