quarterback for the Notre Dame footballteam or “God’s personal messenger.” When a person is delusional they may think that theentire world is against them or that they are even from Mars. “Delusions may come out ofthe blue or may start as an explanation of hallucinations or the sensation of being takenover” (Chiko, 2). A schizophrenic can also have negative symptoms, which affect apersons energy, interest in something, and emotional side of there life (Chico, 2). Negative symptoms can be very hard on the family, because the patient sees them asstrangers and will act toward them that way. Macleans (magazine) Jan. 30, 1995 issue, had a article by Mark Nichols. He feels“that radioactively tagged drugs and tissue samples from schizo’s brains- can help give usan answer to how we can solve this mental illness” (Nichols, 2). He adds, “that the drugszeroed in on a tiny brain protein acts as a receptor for a chemical that transmits messagesinto the brain called dopamine” (Nichols, 2). He also predicts that the use of drugs arecapable of slowing down the disease’s symptoms completely and could emerge within afew decades. Nichols adds that scientists believe that one or more “bad” genes may be thecause for schizophrenia. And because of this new drugs are being developed and tested tosee in fact, if this “bad” gene is the problem of this.Sharon Driedger of Macleans magazine says that although most schizophrenicsneed medication to benefit from any other help, the drugs by are far from sufficient. Along with the drugs, Driedger says, “psychiatric care and social rehabilitation are just asimportant” (2). She also feels that depending on the severity of their symptoms, thepatients may need help in understanding how severe their own illness is, and rememberingto taking their drugs regularly is also very important. Behavior techniques, includi...
