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learning to be wiser in facing the life and doing something. Besides, psychologists believe that people cannot be separated from the cause and effect.
4. Theory of Schizophrenia
Before the writer goes and explains further about the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, it is important to know what schizophrenia is.
Schizophrenia is a disorder with a range of symptoms involving disturbances in content of thought, form of thought, perception, affect,
sense of self, motivation, behavior, and interpersonal functioning Halgin, 1994: 276.
From the above quotation, the writer found that schizophrenia is generally a type of mental illness that attacks emotion, thought and sense in general. Here, a
person who suffers from schizophrenia usually has bizarre behavior every time she feels anxious or fear. It happens because the stimulation that comes to
schizophrenic has already disturbed his thought until it makes herhim not able to think logically anymore. A person who suffers from schizophrenia does not
realize that she is sick. In most cases, a schizophrenic person cannot control what just appears in herhis mind.
To know whether someone gets schizophrenia or not, it is important to know the symptoms first. According to G. Terence Wilson, “delusions,
hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior and negative symptoms” are classic symptoms of schizophrenia 1996, 416.
Although he said there are five symptoms of schizophrenia, he also said that to identify that someone really suffers from schizophrenia or not, the writer only
needs to identify two symptoms out of five.
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a. Delusions
Delusions usually appear to a schizophrenic person. “Delusions are false believe. Person with schizophrenia often express unusual beliefs that are not
shared by others in their culture” Wilson, 1996: 417. From this quotation, the writer concludes that schizophrenic patient believes in something that is not real.
He believes what he thinks is real although the real condition is not. Here, a schizophrenic creates and builds that perceptions only in herhis mind. That is
why delusions usually will lead a schizophrenic into becoming suspicious toward something in front of herhim.
In schizophrenia, there are four types of delusions that should be known
i. Delusions of Persecution
Person who gets delusions of persecution usually believes that someone is trying to hurt herhim or believe that someone is against himher. “People
are out to get me” Wilson,1996: 417.
ii. Delusions of Grandeur
Person who gets these delusions usually think that she is a famous person and have special power and control everything Wilson, 1996: 418.
iii. Delusions of Control
A schizophrenic who gets these delusions believe that hisher thought or actions are controlled by external factors Wilson, 1996: 428.
iv. Delusions of Romance Erotomania
People who get these delusions believe that someone is in love with or romantically involved with them Wilson, 1996: 148.
