Schizophrenia disorder is a severe, chronic, and disabling mental disorder that affects a person’s ability to feel, think, and behave rationally and clearly. People affected by this disorder feel that they have lost touch with reality. The mental health disorder affects 1.5 people per 10,000 every year. It causes immense distress to patients and their family members, and friends.
Schizophrenia is typically diagnosed between late adolescence and early twenties to early thirties. It tends to appear earlier in men, that is, between late adolescence and early twenties, while in women, it is generally diagnosed in the early twenties or early thirties. Schizophrenia can become persistent and disabling, if not treated in time. However, it has a good prognosis as affected individuals can resume normal life at home, work, and school with timely, coordinated, and sustained treatment.
The present schizophrenia treatments focus on managing symptoms and addressing the day-to-day challenges faced by the patient. The different lines of treatments include:
These medications are prescribed in the form of a pill or liquid to alleviate the severity and occurrence of paranoid schizophrenia or schizophrenia symptoms. For individuals who are not comfortable with daily doses, antipsychotic medications may also be administered as injections once or twice a month.
Patients who fail to respond to standard antipsychotic medications are given clozapine. However, one to two percent of patients receiving clozapine may show side effects. Therefore, people treated with clozapine need to undergo routine blood tests for early detection of possible side effects. These side-effects may include:
While some medication-related side effects subside over time, others persist thereby causing the patients to consider stopping them. Nonetheless, clozapine should be tapered under expert supervision as abrupt termination may flare schizophrenia symptoms.
This set of schizophrenia treatment focuses on helping individuals improve their coping skills to effectively deal with the everyday challenges of schizophrenia. These treatments are useful in enabling people in distress to pursue their life-goals, such as performing at work, attending school and forming and sustaining relationships. Moreover, individuals participating in regular psychosocial treatment have a lower risk of relapse or need for hospitalization.
The most commonly prescribed psychosocial treatments to help people deal with the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia include:
In addition, the therapist may also consider a combination of these therapies and antipsychotic medication for better therapeutic outcome.
Schizophrenia symptoms can be broadly segregated into three categories:
Altered perceptions such as
Loss of touch with reality, characterized by
While cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are subtle in some individuals, others may experience more prominent symptoms that may compromise their ability to learn new things, or remember appointments. The most common cognitive symptoms include:
It can be challenging at times to care for and to support people struggling with schizophrenia as they may not know exactly what one goes through when experiencing psychosis. Still, there are certain things you can do to make your loved ones with schizophrenia feel relieved.
If you think a loved one is suffering from schizophrenia disorder, get in touch with Athena Behavioral Health. We can help identify the symptoms, diagnose the problem and implement treatment plans especially designed, keeping in mind the patient and their family’s needs and requirements. For more information about our schizophrenia treatment plans, call our 24/7 helpline number or chat with our representative, available 24/7 today.
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