They may say they hear voices telling them what to do. Schizophrenia is one type of psychosis, it is a lack of insight, and they hallucinate, and have feelings of persecution. They may have suffered damage to their personalities as a child, which makes them powerless to control their impulses. They go with their need without thinking about if it’s right or wrong or the
Disorganized schizophrenia is when their behavior or speech is much unorganized and could cause inappropriate emotion. Catatonic schizophrenia causes one to repeat another ones behavior or speech purposely. Undifferentiated schizophrenia has many and varied symptoms. Residual schizophrenia has withdrawals. Someone can have an identical twin and only one could have schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia can be managed, but it requires the assistance of medication and possibly other therapies. The wishful thinking of Elizabeth A. Richter in the thought that a person with schizophrenia can cure themselves is just a dream. The reality for people with schizophrenia is a lifestyle change that requires managing a disease with the aid of medication and therapies. Often times when a person with schizophrenia chooses to go off of medication they fall back into the world of delusions and faltered reality. This can cause upheaval and damage relationships within their life.
(D1) outline how a named mental disorder is diagnosed. Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of different psychological symptoms. These include: · hallucinations[->2] - hearing or seeing things that do not exist · delusions - unusual beliefs that are not based on reality and often contradict the evidence · muddled thoughts based on the hallucinations or delusions · changes in
Some other forms of treatment is rehab, and family therapy also other people suffering from the same disorder also sometimes hospitalization is required to make sure that the medication works and the symptoms will go away. All these treatments are great compared to how they treated schizophrenia patients before the revolution of mental health came about. Before medications were given to treat schizophrenia people were committed to insane asylums and tied down and left for
HCA 240 A Brief History of Schizophrenia The history of schizophrenia, like the history of many mental disorders, has been a tragic tale. Swiss psychiatrist Paul Eugen Bleuler first identified and named the disease schizophrenia in 1910 (Burton, 2012). Since that time, the disease has undergone many changes in understanding. Some of the early views of the disease included Freud’s view that it resulted from unconscious conflicts from childhood. Other views led to a myriad of ineffective treatments that were often torturous to the patients including: fever therapy, sleep therapy, gas therapy, electroconvulsive or electroshock treatment, and prefrontal leucotomy (Burton, 2012).
With the medication treatment the patient is giving antipsychotic drugs, is usually the most common in treating schizophrenia. Some of these medications include: Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), Haloperidol (Haldol), Perphenazine (Etrafon, Trilafon), Fluphenazine (Prolixin) and Risperdal (Dryden-Edwards, 2011). Although they seem to be effective in suppressing the disorder, sometimes the side effects can be worse than the disease itself. The antipsychotic drugs can sometimes leave patients in an almost “zombie-like” state, most common with Thorazine. It leaves the patient fairly lethargic, and sometimes can even heighten the original symptoms.
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.
Risk assessments are also designed to manage and identify areas of concern, either to the patient or health professional’s involved in the care of the patient. Areas of risk assessment may include suicide or self harm, absconding, aggression or violence, substance use, vulnerabilities and neglect, non adherence or compliance. These areas of assessment may include past risk and current risk factors (Edward, Munro, Robins & Welch, 2011). Risk assessment of the patient is important but also risk towards others. Patients with paranoid schizophrenia are more opportunistic in behaving aggressively or violently towards co-patients and/or staff, which is why implementation of such assessment tools have been put in place (Langan, 2008).
A periodic condition with symptoms that differ in intensity over time and has the potential to devastate the lives of people who are unfortunate enough to become a victim of this disorder known as schizophrenia. “When we dream, we usually believe that the bizarre things we’re experiencing are really happening. Your relative may feel that way when awake, having difficulty distinguishing between reality and the internal illusions taking place.” (Mueser, K.T., Gingerich, S., 2006) Schizophrenia has been described as “dreaming when you’re wide awake.” It is perhaps the most serious major psychiatric disorder, which affects how a person thinks, feels, and acts. There is no conclusive answer as to what causes the disorder, although theorists believe it is to be a combination of factors including genetics, pre-natal viruses, biological, and environmental