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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder often characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to recognize what is real. Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking, auditory hallucinations, reduced social engagement and emotional expression, and inactivity. Diagnosis is based on observed behavior and the person’s reported experiences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
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The Scream, Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Munch struggled with insanity.
The Scream is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910
It depicts a man in a private moment of anguished despair and anxiety, while the other people in the painting, perhaps his friends, seem blissfully unaware of the man’s situation.
The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) did several versions of “The Scream,” an alter image for himself.
(http://www.popspotsnyc.com/The_Scream/)
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In his diaries, the artist Edvard Munch admits that he struggled with insanity not only on a personal level during his life, but also through his family. In fact, his sister was hospitalized for insanity at the time The Scream was painted in 1893.
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According to Munch’s personal diaries, the idea for the modern art painting The Scream came to him while looking down over the Norwegian landscape from an elevation. While a mountaintop or a scenic view from a summit might sound like a beautiful natural landscape to paint, Munch’s personal interpretation of “nature” below was very different than you might imagine.
http://legomenon.com/meaning-of-the-scream-1893-painting-by-edvard-munch.htm
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Did you know that this week Malaysia joined a campaign in World Mental Health Day? “Living with Schizophrenia”… http://fb.me/2s37BRuQe
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SCHIZOPHRENIC: HAVING A SPLIT PERSONALITY
Split personality: Multiple personality disorder, a neurosis in which the personality becomes dissociated into two or more distinct parts each of which becomes dominant and controls behavior from time to time to the exclusion of the other parts. A modern name for this condition is dissociative identity disorder.
(http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11257)
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The Hobbit with the Split Personality
Gollum speaks in an idiosyncratic manner, often referring to himself in the third person, and frequently talks to himself — “through having no one else to speak to,” as Tolkien put it in The Hobbit. When not referring to himself in the 3rd person, he might speak of himself in the plural as “we”, hinting at his split personality.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum)
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Gollum’s split personality
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ONE IN EVERY 100 WILL MAKE US THE COUNTRY WITH THE HIGHEST RATE IN THE WORLD, ABOUT 10 TIMES THE WORLD AVERAGE!
Tomorrow, the psychiatrists will pounce on him! And he will say he was misquoted.
I hope he will correct himself and say, “It’s 1 in every 1000, not 1 in every 100!”
Star
Sunday October 19, 2014 MYT 6:53:29 PM
Dr Hilmi: One in every 100 Malaysians schizophrenic
KEPALA BATAS: The Health Ministry has found that one out of every 100 Malaysians suffers from schizophrenia, said Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahaya.
The Deputy Health Minister said this was worrying as a person with the mental illness could hurt himself and others.
“More Malaysians are suffering from schizophrenia but they and the people around them do not view the problem seriously and refuse to get appropriate treatment.
“The problem should not be viewed lightly because if left untreated, they (schizophrenics) can injure others. This is very dangerous,” he told reporters after opening the Kem I Want Sihat (I Want Health Camp) function, in conjunction with the 2014 World Mental Health Day here, Sunday.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness whose sufferers experience emotional, thought and behavioural disturbances, causing them to behave as if they are in their own world.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/10/19/1-in-100-malaysians-schizo/
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One way of express the prevalence of schizophrenia at any give time is the number of individuals affected per 1,000 total population. In the United States that figure is 7.2 per 1,000. This means that a city of 3 million people will have over 21,000 individuals suffering from schizophrenia.
Incidence: The number of people who will be diagnosed as having schizophrenia in a year is about one in 4,000. So about 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with schizophrenia this year, worldwide. About 100,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with schizophrenia this year.
http://schizophrenia.com/szfacts.htm#
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