Acute Schizophrenia
Acute schizophrenia is one of the specific categories of Schizophrenic disorders, in which in an otherwise healthy and normal person, (mostly the young adult), indicate all the time more weird activities progressively over a brief interval of time.
This could vary from a few weeks to a month or two. As the name suggests, the patients of Acute Schizophrenia suffer from severe attacks and otherwise lead normal lives in between the attacks. Moreover, it has been reported that only about one fourth of the Schizophrenic patients recover fully from such chronic disorders for good, while another quarter of the folks do suffer from long term illness, though these attacks are not characterized by remission periods. On the other hand, more than half of the Schizophrenic patients tend to exhibit prolonged periods of remission and relapse.
Although, the specific reasons behind the root of this chronic illness are not known precisely, it has been noticed that stressful lifestyle as well as consumption of drugs like cannabis contribute to the sources of this disorder.
Looking at the mean duration of acute episode of Schizophrenic attacks, it has been reported that the patients who have been under medication for over six months, and not suffered from such an acute attack generally get cured pretty fast, and the chances of another severe attack henceforth are minimal.
The symptoms of Acute Schizophrenia include suspiciousness, lack of insight, flat mood, delusions of persecution, auditory hallucinations, thoughts spoken aloud and similar delusions. However, it is not necessary that people suffering from schizophrenia exhibit these symptoms always.
Moving on to the cure of this chronic disorder, the treatment of acute schizophrenia is not well defined, but antipsychotic medicines have been known to prevent the chances of relapse of the disease, while recovering the patient from the recent attack at the same time. But, one must continue the medication for Acute Schizophrenia for at least 4-6months continuously.
Furthermore, cognitive behavioural therapy has also been proven to prevent the relapse of schizophrenic attacks to a good extent, while the drugs like haloperidol, risperidone, trifluoperazine, olanzapine, chlorpromazine, clozapine and the likes of them, have been also considered as good preventive measures.
The bottom-line though, is surely to continue the preventive measures for a longer duration of time, in order to make sure that the disorder doesn’t relapse in future.
Originally posted 2009-05-05 05:31:56.