Mental health awareness!!

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## Hi everyone! We are going to talk about Schizophrenia. ## What is Schizophrenia? ![mentaldisord.jpg](https://serey.io/imageupload_data/b461536036119fe7abc1c1aab695e3ee3439e60e) [Source](https://www.google.com/search?q=mental+health&client=tablet-android-pega&prmd=niv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9o-KMv57jAhXnQRUIHcl_Bh4Q_AUoAnoECA0QAg&biw=600&bih=960#imgrc=ZCwt4BUFBSFY6M) Schizophrenia is a long term mental health condition that may cause other phycological symptoms. Doctors often call Schizophrenia as a type of phycosis, this means that they may not be able to distinguish their thoughts from reality. Some people think that people with schizpphrenia have split personailty and violent behaviour this is not true if this happens it is most likely down to misuse of drink and or drugs!! ## Symptoms of Schizophrenia Hullicinations (seeing or hearing things that don't exits), Delusions( unusual beliefs not based on reality), Muddled thoughts based on hullicinations and delusions, Changes in behaviour. ## How might these symptoms affect a person? Hullicinations may cause great distress as hearing or seeing things may be quite thrighting and not having a person to believe what they're seeing or hearing may lead to actions that may not be pleasant and not them and they will be delusional. Delusions is where they believe in something far from reality for example where they believe that god has sent them a message,and they would persue to full extent. Muddled thoughts happens when their delusions or hullicinations contridict each other and they don't know where they stand with them. Changes in behaviour is where they could feel and present mentally well then hit self-distruct button and feel and present mentally unwell this could happen on the situation the person is in or feel severely low in mood. If you have any of these symptoms please seek help from your health professional sooner its spotted and treated the better [for more infomation](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/schizophrenia/)

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