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drive avolition which means a person who has this symptoms shows no interest in activity Wilson, 1996: 421.
5. Theory of Paranoid Schizophrenia
In theory of schizophrenia, the writer finds that paranoid schizophrenia is one of the main type of schizopherenia. Here, the symptoms that are found in
paranoid schizophrenia is triggered from symptoms of schizophrenia. But, in this theory, paranoid schizophrenia has particular symptoms which cannot be found in
schizophrenia. “Paranoid schizophrenia are agitated, argumentative, angry, and sometimes violent” Davison, 1986: 343. People who suffer from paranoid
schizophrenia will always feel insecure and think that somebody is going to go against them. That is why, when they face a bad situation, their reaction will
appear spontaneously. After knowing what paranoid schizophrenia is, there are many kinds of
symptoms that are better to be known. Paranoid patients are suspicious, sensitive, egocentric individuals whose
lives revolve about the theme of persecution. They imagine that people are against them and in devious ways are maltreating or plotting against them.
At first their delusions of persecution are limited and fairly well systematized and their attitude toward the world is one of emotional
aggressiveness Page, 1947: 254.
The above quotation shows that people who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia have a sensitive feeling so it makes them fragile. Their fears already affect their
perception, thought and emotion. Another symptom to identify whether or not someone is schizophrenic is hallucination. The hallucination can be a fear or a
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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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