Disorganized Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia can be described by a wide-ranging spectrum of emotional and cognitive dysfunctions. These can include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior, as well as inappropriate emotions. Consequently, this disease can affect people from all walks of life. Since schizophrenia is such a complex disorder it can ultimately affect a person’s entire existence and their struggle to function daily. With a chronic disease like this, most people have a difficult time functioning in society. This can make it hard for someone who is schizophrenic to relate to others as well as maintain significant relationships. Life expectancy for those who suffer this illness tend to be shorter than average. This is due to the higher rate of accident and suicide. The symptoms of schizophrenia can be broken down into different categories: positive, negative and disorganized. Positive symptoms include hallucinations and delusions. These tend to be the more obvious signs of psychosis. On the other hand negative symptoms indicate deficits or absence of normal behavior which can affect speech and motivation. Disorganized symptoms include erratic behavior as well as rambling speech. Another disorganized symptom can be

“According to one theory, both people with schizophrenia and their non-schizophrenic relatives lack lateralization of function in the brain. Whilst this tends to be an advantage for the latter who gain in creativity from increased use of the right hemisphere and this from increased communication between the right and left hemispheres.” (Burton, “Schizophrenia and Creativity”) I find this to be especially true and do not see this simply as a coincidence. One individual that supports this idea is Peter Allen Greenbaum. Known as Peter Green, he is considered one of the greatest blues guitarist of all