Hallucinations Auditory Hallucinations Theory of Schizophrenia
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brave voice that makes them follow the direction of hallucinations that she sees or hears.
“Some diagnosed schizophrenics often behave quite normally” Alloy, 1996: 355. It means that people who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia are
sociable in herhis environment and community. Besides, “a paranoid person is usually capable of self-management in the community, but on occasion their
persecutory ideas may render them dangerous” Page, 1947: 184. It means that while on one hand a paranoid person is capable of living a normal life with a good
interaction and relationship, on the other hand she can hurt herhimself or hurt people around herhim.
To give strong evidence to show that someone suffers from paranoid schizophrenia or not, below are some information that will help the writer in
identifying this mental illness. In rare instances a paranoid patient may become dangerous and kill or
injure someone. In such an instance the patient’s feelings connected with his delusions had probably become very intense so that the violent assault
seemed to him the only solution to this person. To this person it was seen very likely as a matter of kill or be killed Strange, 1965: 313.
From the above quotation, the writer concludes that paranoid schizophrenia patients become dangerous if they start to feel delusions or hallucinations in front
of them. Besides, the delusions and hallucinations that appear in paranoid schizophrenics mind will make them do something inappropriate and illogical
until those lead them to do violence.
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