An App for Everything
- 2. Despite the connotation of the word positive, positive symptoms of schizophrenia include, • Thought disorganization • Delusions • Hallucinations • Paranoia http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/550755_13 All of which can cause the sufferer to feel, or appear to others, as though he or she were lost (even in an otherwise familiar setting). Social interactions can become overwhelming. Positive symptoms can cause schizophrenics to withdraw from society and isolate themselves.
- 3. • Ambivalence Having simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings about an object or person • Anhedonia The inability to experience pleasure in acts which would normally produce pleasure. • Affective Flattening Expressions which appear, inappropriately, to be devoid of emotion. • Impoverished speech Communication seems incoherent, sentences jump from one subject to another, or words or complete thoughts seem to be missing from sentences. http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/550755_13 Definitions taken from http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp Negative symptoms can cause the sufferer to appear as though he or she is lacking important information during a given situation.
- 4. • Anxiety • Agitation • Suicidality • Distractibility • Catatonic or trancelike states • Abstract thinking impairment (does not seem to grasp generalizations and common concepts) http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/550755_13 Mood and Neurocognitive symptoms can have a great impact on the sufferer’s ability to form and maintain relationships.
- 6. Perhaps you’ve made gotten turned around in an unfamiliar part of town, or have gotten off the highway too soon or too late. In any case, most of us hate that lost feeling. http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
- 7. Have you ever felt as though you were Missing key information? http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
- 10. Thanks to advances in technology, individuals can solve virtually any problem!
- 15. There were an app for schizophrenia?
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- 18. A second chance to make sense of a scattered reality James Cook, MD MS (also known as Nash Baldwin on Second Life), is the creator of the Virtual Hallucinations Project, a space within the Second Life virtual reality venue, which allow an individual to experience a setting or environment with the virtual eyes and ears (examples of possible auditory and visual hallucinations) of a schizophrenic. The Second Life building was designed by Doctor Cook based on the descriptions he was given by two separate patients with schizophrenia. The project is intended to heighten awareness pertaining to the disease. According to Peter M. Yellowlees, M.B.B.S., M.D. and James N. Cook, M.D., M.S., “A common cause of frustration and alienation for sufferers of schizophrenia is that their therapists, family members, and caregivers cannot really understand their experiences.” http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=e n&tab=wi