Is Schizoaffective Disorder A Mental Illness - 1786 Words

A Schizoaffective disorder is a mental illness. The symptoms of this illness include having strange or unusual thoughts or perceptions, paranoid thoughts and ideas, delusion (i.e. having false, fixed beliefs), hallucination, such as hearing voices, and experience disorganized thinking (i.e. unclear and confused thoughts). They may have manic episodes or a sudden increase in energy and behavioural displays that are out of character. They may become irritable and have poor temper control, and even have thoughts of suicide or homicide. Their speaking style can be erratic, and difficult of others to understand, they may have problems with attention and memory. Their behaviour will be at extreme ends of the normal spectrum (catatonic behaviour)†¦show more content†¦There were many examples of when his behaviour was regarded as socially inappropriate in the way he would express his emotions. Elements of his behaviour included child like behaviours that are not social acceptable of a man his age. His was simple minded and could not see that his behaviour was inappropriate. Examples of this were when he would go swimming naked at the beach, and would often not wear pants out in public. Acts such as this is accepted if you are a young child, but no so for an adult, and goes against social norms. Another example was when he first met Gillian, he grabbed her breast and kissed her, having only just been introduced to her. This act is inappropriate, and can be classed as sexual harassment. It is also unacceptable to treat someone this intimately only just having been introduced. Due to different personalities, people express their emotions in different manners. The ways in which David and his Father displayed the emotion of anger was quite different. David’s father Peter was a meticulous man in his beliefs that he was the head of the household and he was the one to make the decisions on behalf of the Helfgott family. When anyone challenged this he would often lash out in anger ‘disciplining ’ the family member to not go against him. He becomes very violent in beating David after David’s tells him he wants to go to England. Peter’s anger personality reflects through out his role in