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In the chilly winter of December 2013, when the then 30-year-old Adeel Afzal disappeared from his home in Sharjah, it took nine days to locate him. When he was finally found on the streets of Dubai, Adeel was taken back to his family house in Sharjah, but the police did not press any charges against him because he is schizophrenic.
Today, his father, Pakistani national Muhammad Afzal, has appealed to authorities to take his mentally ill adult son in because he can no longer care for him.
What is schizophrenia? In schizophrenia, there are, 'positive' and 'negative' symptoms. Positive symptoms are recurrent hallucinations and delusions. Most common are auditory hallucinations. This is as if the patient is hearing 'voices' and experiencing that someone is talking to them, while they don't see anyone. These 'voices' often order the patient to do something. Delusions are also common, especially paranoia. The patient can be convinced, for example, that they are followed by the secret service, that there are hidden cameras watching them or that someone is trying to poison them. The positive symptoms are not really 'positive', but that is how it's called. Negative symptoms are like lack of initiative, apathy and reduction of speech. Usually schizophrenia starts with 'positive' symptoms and gradually, in the course of years, become worse. Schizophrenia is considered to be a life-long disease, but there is a great variety in severity and impairment. (As told by Dr Willem Vrolijk, psychiatrist at German Neuroscience Centre) |
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