| Schizophrenia is a type of mental disorder in which a | | | | started to record and put into place the different types |
| person suffers from distorted perception of real life | | | | of mental disorders and defined them by one term: |
| and very often losing touch with reality. Originating from | | | | dementia praecox. It was not until the nineteenth |
| the Geek word: schizo (split) and phrene (mind), it is a | | | | century before people begin to gain more awareness |
| mental disorder with a long history. | | | | about diseases and their causes. It was not until the |
| Schizophrenia in 2000B.C. | | | | turn of the century before we saw many new medical |
| The history of Schizophrenia dated back to around | | | | science breakthrough findings. Schizophrenia, as a |
| 2000 B.C., when little was known about mental | | | | mental illness was coined by a Swiss psychiatrist |
| disorders. It was believed that the person who is | | | | named Eugen Bleuler in 1908. The definition and |
| suffering from mental disturbances has been invaded | | | | symptoms of Schizophrenia that we are using today |
| by an evil spirit and the only way to cure the disorder | | | | was put up by another German psychiatrist,Kurt |
| is by driving out the evil spirit. In those times, there were | | | | Schneider, in 1957. |
| many types of exorcism method. One was to made | | | | Regardless of the progression in medical science, |
| patients listen to music in order to drive the evil spirit | | | | there were few people who were unable to accept |
| out, another brutal one see patients skull being drill to | | | | the logic and explanation of science and for their |
| provide a way for the spirits to get out. | | | | benefit continued to commit cruelty towards human |
| Schizophrenia as understood by the Egyptians | | | | race, one such example is the case of World War II. |
| A mention of mental disorders and their symptoms is | | | | During the World War II Schizophrenia was identified to |
| there in The Book of Heart, an Egyptian book. The | | | | be a genetic disorder and in order to prevent |
| Egyptians believed that the heart and brain are | | | | transmission of the condition from one generation to |
| interlinked. Therefore, according to their belief, a person | | | | another and practice selective procreation, mentally |
| who is suffering from certain mental disorder must be | | | | disturbed people were killed. |
| suffering from certain heart problems as well. All the | | | | Despite of such pathetic examples in the history of |
| people suffering from Schizophrenia were considered | | | | Schizophrenia, psychiatrists, doctors and scientists |
| mad and dangerous, in spite of the display of their | | | | have never given up hope and have worked day and |
| normal human characteristics at all other times. The | | | | night for advancement in the understanding of |
| only refuges for them were the mental homes. Such | | | | Schizophrenia. Many misconceptions about |
| misunderstanding stayed for a very long time before | | | | Schizophrenia have become clear. Today, instead of |
| researchers came up with a scientific explanation to | | | | brutally treating the patients, considering the patients |
| dispel the misconception. | | | | mad and sending them to asylum, society is becoming |
| Evolution in the understanding of Schizophrenia | | | | able to accept the fact that such patients need |
| Initial efforts to understand and record atypical mental | | | | understanding and sympathy. To help treat and relieve |
| behaviors were made in the seventeenth century. | | | | their mental disorder, you need to spend time, show |
| Later in 1887, Emile Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, | | | | care and affection with proper medication. |