The difference being, physical illness can be seen, and mental illness can hide, even masquerade it’s symptoms for long periods of time without any treatment. Some mental illnesses can be cured through the assistance of a psychiatrist or counselor. Depression is one such mental illness. Quite often when someone is feeling depressed for extended periods of time, having someone who will listen, and not make judgments is all that is needed. Other mental illnesses such as schizophrenia require a doctor to prescribe medication to keep the systems under control.
There is also a treatment of cognitive behavioural therapy. This is a talking therapy that can help you manage a schizophrenic patient problems by changing the way they think and behave.CBT cannot remove the problems, but can help them manage them in a more positive way. It encourages them to examine how their actions can affect how they think and feel. Also an Antipsychotics can be given this is to reduce the amount of dopamine in the brain. There are also community programmes and mental health teams to help schizophrenic patients.
Describe the clinical characteristics of Schizophrenia (8) Schizophrenia is a mental illness that severely affects and disables the thought process. To be diagnosed with schizophrenia, at least two of the symptoms of schizophrenia must be present for more than one month. These symptoms are split into two categories, positive, which are an excess of normal functions and negative which are a loss of normal functions. Positive symptoms include delusions in which you believe things that are not real or do not exist. They can be paranoid delusions and the person will exhibit paranoid behaviour because of this.
According to Solrac Selbor (2007), group therapies is a good form of therapy because people feel much better knowing that they are not alone while going through the ups and downs of recovering from drug use. In group therapy settings, people often feel a sense of connection with other members of the group because they cultivate, over time, a feeling of mutual support. In group therapy individuals have a chance to experience things that they may have never experienced before. They learn to develop new skills that help them in their recovery as well as in the real world. These learned skills can include social and communication skills and are understood by the individual because of the interpersonal setting of the group.
Treatment planning includes a balance of both trauma and behavioral focal point, working on ongoing behavioral problems and behavioral crises, modify distorted thinking so that families could have the knowledge to transfer, and children can learn how to talk through their experiences. Results: Cognitive therapy also incorporated with behavioral therapy practice to manage the behavioral regulation problems that commonly happens in traumatized children. Conclusions: Treating trauma related behavioral problems is a crucial part of trauma-focused treatment and is achievable if practice is done accordingly. This practice is important due to the common nature of behavioral dilemma in traumatized children (Cohen, 2007). CBT 3 Cognitive behavioral therapy is generally psychotherapy and behavioral therapy combined.
Common treatments known to science are; Chlorpromazine, Haloperidol, Perphenazine, Fluphenazine. These medications are antiphicotics, all of which help patients endure their symptoms. The common side effects vary between but are not limited to restlessness, dizziness, tremors, and rapid heartbeat. Though there is not cure for schizophrenia, a cure is still being researched. People that suffer from this illness are medicated to help them live successful independents lives, in serious cases patients are taken care of in specialized facilities or treatment
It can be very difficult to tell whether negative symptoms are part of the schizophrenia, or whether they are present because you are reacting to other frightening or distressing symptoms. For example, a person with a mental health problem may be discriminated against or ignored which may cause them to feel isolated and depressed and so they withdraw. About one in every hundred people is diagnosed with schizophrenia during their lifetime and everyone diagnosed with schizophrenia will have a different experience of the
Treatment During an episode of schizophrenia, you may need to stay in the hospital for safety reasons. MEDICATIONS Antipsychotic medications are the most effective treatment for schizophrenia. They change the balance of chemicals in the brain and can help control symptoms/ These medications are usually helpful, but they can cause side effects. Many of these side effects can be improved, and should not prevent people from seeking treatment for this serious condition. Common side effects from antipsychotics may include: •Sleepiness (sedation) •Dizziness •Weight gain •Increased chance of diabetes and high cholesterol •Feelings of restlessness or "jitters" •Slowed movements •Tremor Long-term use of antipsychotic medications may increase your risk for a movement disorder called tardive dyskinesia.
Gregory (2010) describes Schizophrenia as the perfect example of a severe mental illness. The world is an incomprehensible jumble for Schizophrenics and the line between delusion and reality is blurred, if not obliterated. The American Psychiatric Association (2013) categorises Schizophrenia as a psychotic disorder, with abnormalities in one or more of 5 domains. These are delusions, hallucinations, disorganised thinking and speech, and grossly disorganised or abnormal motor behaviour such as catatonia. If these delusions and beliefs are not understandable to cultural peers and not related to ordinary life experiences, they are deemed to be bizarre (The American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
In some cases the person with schizophrenia may believe their thoughts are being broadcasted so that others can hear them. Incoherent or loosely associated speech is also used as an indicator of thought disorder. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia include affective flattening and alogia and avolition. Affective flattening is a reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression, including facial expression, voice tone, eye contact and body language. Alogia is the poverty of speech.