Psychological Reactions To Specific Stressors
These abnormalities, combined with a strong belief in a false representation of reality, results in a pathologic reinforcement of this symbol. Schizophrenia happens when this false symbolic representation becomes the primary reality. In other psychological disorders, even in "normal" people, this representation given by language has replaced the intuitive, resulting in the materialistic, money driven society of today. The extraordinary rise of schizophrenia in modern times may be a result of the increasingly isolated world consisting of a literal representation of reality e.g. phones, or words on screens replacing face to face interaction. This is somewhat speculative, but it is known that social isolation is a diagnostic criterion for schizoid disorders, while genetic/neurologic abnormalities are the primary risk factor for developing this disease, which can be caused by exogenous factors, not just an alteration in the expression of 7-TM receptors.
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