INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT International Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journals, Open Access Journal ISSN Approved Journal No: 2456-4184 | Impact factor: 8.76 | ESTD Year: 2016
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Abstract:- Schizophrenia is a psychotic illness that drastically affects the persons cognition, behaviour, affect and understanding in the state of clear consciousness. Schizophrenia with over or hyper-religiosity is not so common yet not so rare. A 25 years old male was brought to psychiatric unit with complaints of hyper-religiosity, destructive behaviour, extreme suspiciousness, increase aggression, self smiling since one months and decreased sleep and appetite since 8 days. According to family since one year the patient started praying rigorously for long hours in the morning and evening and the whole day, many times he skips the meals also saying prayers are the only source of living for him. On asking by the family the patient said that he sensing smell of dead dog inside the house and the house members hiding a dog’s dead body inside the house and mixing dead dog’s remains in his food, he also developed the habit of self-induced vomiting after eating over the feeling of disgust. As in this case the the patient showed multiple symptom I.e. hyper-religiosity, destructive behaviour, extreme suspiciousness, increase aggression, self smiling and decreased sleep and appetite.
Keywords:
schizophrenia, hyper-religiosity
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"Schizophrenia with Hyper-Religiosity: A case study", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no.e652-e653, April-2023, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2304487.pdf
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2456-4184 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.76 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
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