Some of the symptoms to watch for at home are hearing voices, anxiety, violence, suicidal thoughts, and delusions. Paranoid Schizophrenia is thought to mainly affect cognition, but it also can contribute to chronic problems
2. Seizures Ethanol withdrawal seizures occur within 48 hours of abstinence, and within 7–24 hours in about two-thirds of cases. Roughly 40% of patients who experience seizures have a single seizure; more than 90% have between one and six seizures. In 85% of the cases, the interval between the first and last seizures is 6 hours or less. Anticonvulsants are usually not required, as seizures cease spontaneously in most cases.
The five categories of schizophrenia are distinguished by symptoms. For example, paranoid schizophrenics display obsessiveness with irrational beliefs. They may believe that strangers or the government is following them. Disorganized schizophrenics are often confused and experience disorganized speech and behavior. For instance, disorganized schizophrenics will say words out of context or repeat behaviors due to being confused.
Discuss issues surrounding the classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia. There are two different classification systems in place to diagnose schizophrenia, the ICD-10 and the DCM. The key difference between the two classification systems is that the DCM measures symptoms over the course of 6 months, whereas the ICD-10 measures them over only one month. This poses a question of reliability, as there is a great lack of consistency between the two systems. Beck et al (1961) looked at inter-rater reliability between 2 psychiatrists who both looked at the same 154 patients, and found that the inter-rater reliability was low at 54%, meaning that the two systems may produce different results when it comes to the classification of schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by a deficit of typical emotional responses. In addition to this, some signs of schizophrenia are also associated with illnesses such as depression for example, hallucinations and delusions. Schizophrenia is also defined as a psychotic disorder with, impairments in reality, disturbances of perception and thought experienced as hallucinations, delusions, hearing voices, seeing things that are not there, and paranoia. Its onset usually starts in a person’s late teens to early twenties, and it affects about one percent of the global population. Its causes are unknown but experts are learning more every day.
‘Outline and evaluate classification and diagnosis of OCD’ 24 marks OCD is an anxiety disorder characterized by obsessions that lead to compulsions. Obsessions manifest themselves as repetitive, recurring and unwanted thoughts, which cause anxiety and are a product of the individual’s own mind. One example may be the constant thought that something negative will happen to you. This obsession will then lead to a compulsion, which the patient believes will prevent these unwanted thoughts coming to life. For example, the idea that by keeping everything abnormally clean and organised the thought that something negative will happen to you will be prevented.
Interventions such as chest Physiotherapy, assisted cough, and nocturnal noninvasive ventilation may be considered. However these interventions will only increase the quality of life with no effect on survival for patients with Werdnig-Hoffman paralysis or SMA type I. Some of the medical complications associated with these treatments include pulmonary infections, spinal deformities and respiratory failure. Prognosis The prognosis for children with Werdnig-Hoffman paralysis is very poor. Median survival is about 6 months and 95% of children with the disease have died by the age of 18 months.
An anxiety disorder is diagnosed if the persons response is not appropriate for the situation, if the person cannot control the response, or if the anxiety interferes with their normal functioning. Anxiety disorders include post traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorders, specific phobias, panic disorders, generalized anxiety disorder and social anxiety disorder. Psychotic Disorder - Psychotic disorders involve distorted awareness and thinking. Two of the most common symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations - the experience of images and sounds that are not real, such as hearing voices and delusions, which are false beliefs that the ill person accepts as true,
Torrey (2009) confirms that 70 percent of patients with Schizophrenia, who have taken these Antipsychotic Medications, have vastly improved according to studies. This means that an individual who is dealing with Schizophrenia can find a place of stability and safety on the road to recovery. To further strengthen the belief that Antipsychotic Medications are a help to individuals with Schizophrenia Torrey (2009) believes that when individuals attend therapy on a regular basis, and he or she continues their treatment of Antipsychotic Medications there will be a reduction in the symptoms of the disease, hospital stays will be shortened to almost non-existence, and the chance of acquiring to be re-hospitalized is reduced dramatically. All of these factors working together show the world at large that there is a sign of hope for individuals, which have been diagnosed with
Mental Illness Paper HCA/240 Brian Eigelbach 09/07/12 Mental Illness Paper Schizophrenia is a very serious disease. This disease is a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of the ability to function in everyday life. Some people feel delusional; have hallucinations, and disintegration of personality. The disease was first identified as a discrete mental illness by Dr. Emile Kraepelin in the 1887 and the illness itself is generally believed to have accompanied mankind through its history (Schizophrenia.com, 2010). The name schizophrenia comes from the Greek word “schizo-phrene”.