| Being a brain disease the effects it has on the | | | | for delusions the impression that someone or |
| patient are very drastic. Even daily things become | | | | something wants to heart them. When trying to |
| difficult or like in the case of personal hygiene | | | | correct this involuntary actions in the patient, it |
| unmanageable and neglected. The behavior of the | | | | has been found that the treatment is met with |
| patient changes drastically, the person becoming | | | | resistance and defensiveness. |
| very irrational and chaotic. The brain being in this | | | | In the case of schizophrenic patients the brain is |
| way affected, thinking , feeling, understanding and | | | | seriously out of order, thus for them the reality |
| consciousness itself are altered in very different | | | | that their brain presents to them is as real as the |
| and negative ways. Thinking coherently, | | | | one of a normal person in the real world. This in a |
| expressing emotions appropriately and interacting | | | | way makes the patient be trapped in a sort of |
| with others normally becomes a seriously difficult | | | | virtual reality created by his own brain. The |
| task for patients. Family life is also affected, | | | | hallucinations and delusions are very serious for |
| members having now to provide and care for the | | | | them and because of this they try desperately to |
| sick person to. On an emotional level they | | | | understand what is going on around them and |
| sometimes become distressed and overwhelmed | | | | why those things are happening to them. Because |
| by this, on top of witch they have to now see | | | | they are presented with their own reality, actually |
| their loved one become a seriously ill patient of a | | | | living in the one that is real is very difficult making |
| chronic disease. | | | | interacting between them and normal people very |
| One of the most defining features of | | | | hard. |
| schizophrenia is psychosis. This happens when the | | | | This loss of reality is very difficult for both the |
| chronicle ill patient losses touch with reality ( the | | | | patient, who is trying desperately to make sense |
| ability to differentiate between real and imaginary | | | | of the chaos that his brain has created and he is |
| things is damaged). It is not uncommon for | | | | now faced with, and for the family because they |
| schizophrenia patients to suffer from hallucinations | | | | have to watch helplessly how their loved one is |
| or even delusions; most often in the cases of | | | | losing touch with reality and becoming a problem |
| hallucinations we have the hearing of voices and | | | | for the rest of them. |