Paranoid Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia - Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:20:23 +0000

Schizophrenia is one of the common yet troublesome mental disorders, in which the disease confuses the patient in terms of similarities. The characteristics of this disorder are taken into a non-public world by faith and percepts, where these can not be realized by the other people.

This disorder can affect 1% of the people and is considered as all from one disease, to the way towards life. The prognosis of this disease is impossible and it is better than that of most of the neuroses, means it is better than most of the other cases.

At least six symptoms are expected to occur, which carry on while examining any hypothesis regarding occurrence of this type of schizophrenia, parting the average behaviors of this disease as a group. But, it is limited to only single person. It is limited to an individual, though its average characteristics are known to have impact on the whole group.

As far as the symptoms are concerned, it is nothing specific, but quite a number of common situations are noticeable. The variations are categorized according to the affected type of disease. Looking at the other factors, positives and negatives may cancel each other, leaving symptoms of same similarities, to only individuals.

Keen and persistent forms of this disorder may have important variations of each of its kind. It is not predictive about the signs and similarities in the findings, and the arrangements are analytical of etiology or next to primary process.

It is prognostic to find whether the disease is at the last stage, or at the method of reaching the last stage or at the both.

Schizophrenia Diagnosis

The survey reports of mind disorders and diagnosis in American Psychiatric Association or DSM formed in 1968, tells that schizophrenia is one of its kind as a serious affecting disorder of mental depth, behaviorally marked by a natural delusion, nervousness disharmony, hallucination, and/or rude character.

The head organization WHO(World Health Organization), made their possible efforts to normalize the opinion of schizophrenia. The center similarities as opened by this research includes most of the hearing problems, voice efforts, expressing the ideas as the people intended to express are,

Hearing hallucinations have been reported to be about 74%, isolation of ideas to about 62%, smoothness of concern with 66%, voice modulation of the diseased with 65%, Ideas told out loudly with 50%, while the delusions of management were reported to be about 48%.

Originally posted 2009-05-06 23:50:42.

Childhood Scizophrenia

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:24:05 +0000

The Schizophrenia is a mental or psychological diseas in which, the patient suffers from auditory hallucinations or verbal problems. The disorder has also seen in the children, apart from the adolescents. So, the chronic mental disease in which such visual, audition or oral problems seem to affect the children below their teen ages, is known as the childhood schizophrenia.

Due to this disorder, the daily ability to function the work such as the playing, eating, sleeping chatting with the parents or with the other members is hampered vigorously. As per the normal characteristics of the schizophrenia, childhood schizophrenia may also include the delusions, difficulty in routine tasks such as bathing, eating, playing, auditory hallucinations, thinking disorder and irritating behaviors.

Since the childhood is the initial onset of a person, so the disorder causes the maximum dilemma in the child as well as on brings about adverse effects on the parents too. The educational needs, treatment, and diagnosis may be challenging for the parents and the associated psychiatrics. The childhood schizophrenia is also called as the early on set schizophrenia or childhood-onset schizophrenia. This schizophrenia spectrum disorder changes the whole behavior of the child. As the child thinks that surrounding it are trying to neglect, cheat and kill him. This nature of the child clearly depicts the thinking disorder as the same may not be the case surrounding it. However, the relief for every parent may be the survey result, which shows that the childhood schizophrenia is a rare disorder and may be 1 case out of 40,000 children.

The mental disorder starts at the age of 9 or before the age 13. In comparison to the same disorder among the adults, the schizophrenia in children is very complicated to cure. The treatment should be performed by the expert psychiatrics as the ordinary psychiatrics may take long enough time to diagnosis by doing lot of trial and error during the medication process. However, the delay in diagnosis may be fatal to the child condition.

The family members with all the financial, emotional and educational resources are the helping hand for the kids suffering from childhood schizophrenia. Moreover, the affected child patient may be heading towards the long time chronic mental disorder due to the support services such as the child psychiatric treatment, child psychiatrics in experienced nature, the hospital, child welfare workers and mostly the parents. The family members should not consider the disorder as the burden to them and with sympathy and empathy they should go for the treatment to the experienced psychiatrics as soon as possible.

Originally posted 2009-04-25 14:17:38.

History Of Schizophrenia

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:56:17 +0000

Schizophrenia is the name of a psychiatric diagnosis, which describes the characteristics of some abnormal mental disordered perception. This name is retrieved from the Greek words ‘skhizein’, which mean ‘to split’ and ‘phren’, which mean ‘mind’. Its common symptoms are haphazard opinion and speech, strange delusions or paranoid, hearing hallucination and noteworthy working and social dysfunction.

These symptoms are usually found in 0.4 to 0.6 percentage of young adulthood population. Social processes, psychological, neurobiology, early environment, and genetics are typical contributing factors of the symptoms from studies. In addition, some prescribed and entertaining drugs cause the symptoms or deteriorate it.

Eugen Bleuler named the disease as ‘Schizophrenia’, because it has numerous distinct syndromes. This term normally and inaccurately has been confused as multiple individuality order. These types of syndromes were rare prior to 1800s according to the history of Schizophrenia. However, there were some unmanageable, meaningless, or unreasonable behaviors usual at that time. The literatures of ancient Greek and Rome contains some descriptions of psychosis, but it has no association with the criteria of schizophrenia. At some stage in the Middle Ages psychological and Arabic medical literatures were reported to have some strange psychotic behaviors and beliefs, which were some how comparable to the symptoms of schizophrenia.

In 1853, Benedict Morel, described the schizophrenia as a discrete syndrome commonly affecting the young adults and teenagers for the first time. The major obstacle for the recovery from the schizophrenia is identified as the social stigma. According to a study in 1999, persons with schizophrenia according to 12.8 percent of Americans were thought to be vicious to others. While 48.1 percent of them believe they were somewhat likely to violent and 74 percent people said that these people were not able to make a decision. The Movie world also describes some of the stories of symptoms of schizophrenia like the book and movie “A Beautiful Mind”, which record in a factual and detailed way the life style of John Forbes Nash, a schizophrenia patient and also a Noble Prize winner mathematician.

Also in an Indian movie titled “Devrai”, Schizophrenia has been represented in a broad way. This film describes the struggles, mentality, and behavior of the patient and his loved ones. Australian columnist Anne Deveson described the story of battle between her son and the schizophrenia in her book “Tell me I’m Here”, which was later converted into a film.

Originally posted 2009-04-25 17:05:05.

How to Diagnose Schizophrenia

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:21:06 +0000

Schizophrenia is a type of syndrome, which affects the behavior, emotions and thinking of a person, who has been affected by it. This disease can be controlled by alternative treatment and medication, while there is no heal for this illness. To diagnose the schizophrenia, knowing the symptoms should be the first step. Becoming confused or showing strange behavior in social situations are some of the symptoms of the disorder. There behavior changes from time to time like depressed or moody.

To diagnose the schizophrenia, one has to study the actions of the patient of schizophrenia closely to confirm whether the patient actually have it or not. It can be noticeable from their behavior with other peoples around him, their relationship with family members and friends, and their personal worry about themselves. Their thinking process, complexity with speech and extreme mistrust are the signs of schizophrenia. The final diagnosis can be determined using the symptoms of the disorder, as no scans or blood tests can be used to find it out. Combination of five types of symptoms makes up the schizophrenia disorder. Strange behaviors, unorganized speech, hallucinations, and illusion of the imaginations are all those symptoms, which should be watched while diagnosing this disorder.

This diagnosis becomes more complex as there are five distinct kinds of schizophrenia. When it is finally found that the patient have schizophrenia, then it would be put into one of the kinds of schizophrenia to make specific diagnosis. Both figment of the imagination and delusion are involved in the features of Paranoid schizophrenia. While disorganized behavior and speech are characterized as the disorganized schizophrenia, which can associate with some negative symptoms. There should be less delusion and hallucination in order to find out if it is Disorganized schizophrenia or not. The signs of excessive activity or inactivity are found in the Catatonic schizophrenia, where the behavior of the person is considered bizarre or abnormal.

In order to identify this type of disorder, the patient should have the combination of disorganized behavior and speech, delusion, and hallucination. To diagnose the schizophrenia, one must learn the residual schizophrenia, which is used less with respect to others.

Those had other forms of schizophrenia mentioned above or any other in their life but no longer have well-known symptoms to fall under this category. The diagnosis of the schizophrenia is only the process of monitoring the symptoms related with the patient of schizophrenia disorder than something else.

Originally posted 2009-04-29 15:44:15.

How to deal with paranoid schizophrenic patients

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:26:52 +0000

In case the physician or medical practitioner feels that the patient is suffering from schizophrenia or similar mental disorders, then it is essential to run the patient through a flurry of medical tests and similar examinations.

Basically, medicinal tests and mental exams are conducted when your health provider believes that you may be suffering from dreadful schizophrenia. Such an analysis can help in finding out other related symptoms that you are suffering from.

The major things included in this analysis are -

1. Physical exam: Important signs such as heart rate, blood pressure and hotness of the body including height and weight are tested.

2. Laboratory tests: Tests on alcohol content and thyroid functioning are done.

3. Psychological evaluation: Medicinal tests and mental exams are conducted when your health provider believes that you may have paranoid schizophrenia in you. This analysis can help in finding out other related symptoms that you are suffering from.

Analytic criteria for Paranoid Schizophrenia:

American psychiatric association had published a manual, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, to be used by mental health providers for examining the people who are having similar symptoms.

Analytic criteria for paranoid schizophrenia include anxiety accompanied by occurrence of frequent hearing hallucinations and delusions.

Analytic criteria for Paranoid Schizophrenia include:

• Occurrence of an anxiety with frequent hearing hallucinations and delusions

• Due to similar symptoms in other diseases, it is difficult to predict the symptoms early on, and get a suitable treatment.

Originally posted 2009-05-07 00:07:00.

Types of Schizophrenia

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:17:48 +0000

Schizophrenia can be defined as the mental dysfunction, leading to an abnormal behavior, and the symptoms of the patients can be taken into the consideration for the types of schizophrenia. However, it has been observed that the more than one type of schizophrenia disorder may also affect a person.

Broadly, the diagnosis has been divided into five types-

1. Catatonic
2. Paranoid
3. Residual
4. Disorganized
5. Undifferentiated Disorder Schizophrenia.

The most common form is the Paranoid Scizophrenia, which may be regarded as the auditory hallucinations or delusions. The patients think that people are behaving as enemy to them, such as feeding poison to them, harassing them, cheating or spying about them and also disbelieving them, though, it may not be the case in reality.

In the Auditory Hallucinations, patient hears false voices of the surrounding people. Patients may hear some voices ordering them, warning them of some kind of danger and talking about the affection of the syndrome. But, the people around the person may not be doing all these activities in reality. However, the Paranoid Schizophrenia affected person does not get any disorder in his thought process or in its behavior, which may be observed in the other form of the Schizophrenia.

The catatonic Schizophrenia affected people becomes unusual coordinated behavior, clumsy in behavior, movements of the body involuntarily etc. However, this is a rare type of the Scizophrenia. The patient may repeat its certain motions or actions continuously again and again. As the name indicates, the disordered person becomes catatonic.

If a person affected by any Scizophrenia for a long time, then he may be affected by the Residual Scizophrenia. It is considered as a negative schizophrenia in which, the person looses interest in day to day life, shows less ability in interaction to other person after many times to speak, lack of action for any planned activity, neglect their living style and hygiene etc.

The type of schizophrenia, which affects the person mainly on its thought process, is known as the disorganized schizophrenia. This is also known as the Thought blocking disorder. As a symptom, the patient having this disorder performs not understandable speeches and stops, while speaking continuously. The patient forgets about his speech and lead to the neologisms. The disorder affects the facial expressions and the voice also making it monotonous one.

The Undifferentiated Schizophrenia is not a consistent form of disease. The people, who are affected by it, show multiple symptoms of verbal and behavioral activities inconsistently.

Originally posted 2009-04-25 17:02:05.

Need for Schizophrenic Medication

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:42:08 +0000

The schizophrenia is a mental disorder causing the thought disorder, hallucinations and delusions amongst young teenagers, adults and even senior citizens above 70 years of age. The medication or diagnosis is quite vital for the affected person to make his/her life normal again. The schizophrenia medication involves the observation of the affected person for a particular time duration, symptom managements, and improvement of the behavioral function of the patient by guiding and treating him effectively.

The recovery process helps the patient in gaining the new hopes, social inclusion, normal official and social activities and empowerment etc. the medication has been started since 1950 after the discovery of the chlorpromazine for the schizophrenia treatment. The medicine started a new revolution in the world of mental health diagnosis and treatment of other mental disorders. However, the medicine had shown certain fatal and harmful side effects in the later part of the time. It has been observed that the medication in the non-western countries is quite effective in comparison to the Western countries in Europe.

The non-western countries use to medicate the schizophrenia in a traditional, informal and mainly by the community led methods. The prognosis of the disorder reveals that the medication leads to the full recovery for one third of the persons, one third with the improvement over the disorder but another one third persons remain schizophrenic affected through out their life and death only cause the end of the trauma due to the schizophrenia. It has been observed that the sufficient vocational and social functioning for a continuous two years time has shown a recovery rate of only 14 percentage and improvement over the disorder in five years.

The World Health Organization is also not far behind the medication of the schizophrenia. The WHO had conducted two long term processes on more than 2000 people from different countries. The long term outcome of the organization was quite effective for the countries such as – India, Nigeria and Colombia in comparison to the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, Denmark, Japan, Russia and USA. In case of the severe ness the patient is admitted to the hospital under the supervision of the medical support staffs and psychiatric experts. The antipsychotic medication reduces the symptoms of the patient with in the 14 days of medicine intake.

The Risperidone, Chloropromazine, trifluoperazine, haloperidol are some famous medicines for the treatment of schizophrenic disorders. However, you must remember that the medicines may cause obesity and diabetes to the patient as its side effects.

Originally posted 2009-04-29 15:52:56.

Hebephrenic Schizophrenia

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:40:12 +0000

The schizophrenic disorders are mainly classified into three primary types, which include Paranoid Schizophrenia, Catatonic Schizophrenia as well as Hebephrenic Schizophrenia. All the categories of Schizophrenic disorders are characterized by distinct symptoms as well as other typical behaviors.

The main hebephrenic type symptoms include bizarre delusion, jumbled speech, emotional shallowness, hallucination, gross disintegration of the personality as well as possible tendency to childish silliness. Although these are the high-flying symptoms of Hebephrenic type Schizophrenia, the patients suffering from this chronic disorder exhibit vivid kinds of illogical acts.

Over time, the decision-making abilities of such patients are seriously hampered, making it tougher and tougher day-by-day to actually behave like normal human beings. The patients tend to get dull, and idle, while their speech becomes confused, senseless, disconnected as well as disordered.

The patients suffering from Hebephrenic Schizophrenia also show sudden outburst of emotions, which may be either fits of laughter or severe anger and sobbing. They may also hallucinate about peculiar odor, which others may not detect, while in other cases, they may even see heavenly bodies, or see weird things such as snakes and insects of the wall.

The occupational and group psychotherapies are known to bring some kind of relief to such patients, while the electric shock therapy is used to treat those who are suffering from severe levels of this disorder, as it becomes tough to handle such patients with normal ways. Moreover, re-learning is also considered to be quite helpful to improve the condition of the patients suffering from Hebephrenic Schizophrenia

As far as medicinal treatments are concerned, this disease may also be cured substantially with insulin injection and use of metharanol.

Originally posted 2009-05-05 05:40:48.

Disorganized schizophrenia

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:33:25 +0000

Disorganized schizophrenia is one of the most prominent types of schizophrenic disorders, in which the patient basically suffers from incoherent and illogical thinking, basically leading to uncontrolled actions. As a result, such patients are unable to even lead a normal life and do the usual activities on a day-to-day basis.

As a matter of fact, such schizophrenic patients even fail to take meals on their own, or take bath etc. Moreover, not only do such patients fail to convey their thoughts, but also to understand what others are trying to say. In fact, the patients suffering from disorganized schizophrenia also show frustration, due to their inability to cope-up with the normal activities, which others carry out effortlessly.

The Disorganized schizophrenic disorders are also alternatively known as hebephrenic schizophrenia. It is also termed as psychosis, but it is quite different from the other mental disorders such as split personality and the likes of them.

Disorganized schizophrenia has got nothing to do with multi-personality, or multiple sclerosis, though they are known to arise from the brain dysfunction. However, the exact causes of such disorders are not known precisely, nevertheless there are certain common factors, which may actually increase the risk of triggering or developing the disorganized schizophrenia.

Some of such possible factors include exposure to viruses while in the womb, older paternal age, trauma or child-abuse during early ages, effect of intake of psychoactive drugs during adolescence, Malnutrition while in the womb, family history of schizophrenia as well as Stressful or tragic life circumstances.

As per the recent facts and figures only about one percent of the population gets affected from chronic disorders like schizophrenia, while the count of those affected by disorganized schizophrenia is further lower. The schizophrenic disorders are known to be prevalent from 20s to mid 30s, while the disorder schizophrenia is known to occur during the young age. It is mainly prevalent amongst the young teens or the adolescents.

There are several prescribed medications for schizophrenia, but the cure of disorganized schizophrenia is not really known yet. As a result, various tactics like physiotherapy and similar activities tend to bring some relief to these schizophrenic patients in the longer run.

Originally posted 2009-05-05 05:39:34.

How to Diagnose Schizophrenia

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:11:15 +0000

Schizophrenia is a type of syndrome, which affects the behavior, emotions and thinking of a person, who has been affected by it. This disease can be controlled by alternative treatment and medication, while there is no heal for this illness. To diagnose the schizophrenia, knowing the symptoms is always the first step. Becoming confused or showing strange behavior in social situations are some of the symptoms of the disorder. The behavior of patient changes from time to time like being depressed or moody.

To diagnose the schizophrenia, one has to study the actions of the patient of schizophrenia closely to confirm whether the patient actually have it or not. It can be noticeable from their behavior with other peoples around him, their relationship with family members and friends, and their personal worry about themselves. Their thinking process, complexity with speech and extreme mistrust are the signs of schizophrenia. The final diagnosis can be determined using the symptoms of the disorder, as no scans or blood tests can be used to find it out. Combination of five types of symptoms makes up the schizophrenia disorder. Strange behaviors, unorganized speech, hallucinations, and illusion of the imaginations are all those symptoms, which must be observed closely, while diagnosing this disorder.

This diagnosis becomes more complex as there are five distinct kinds of schizophrenia. When it is finally found that the patient have schizophrenia, then it would be put into one of the kinds of schizophrenia to make more exact diagnosis.

Both figment of the imagination and delusion are involved in the features of Paranoid schizophrenia, while disorganized behavior and speech are characterized as the disorganized schizophrenia, which can associate with some negative symptoms. There should be less delusion and hallucination in order to confirm that it is Disorganized schizophrenia.

The signs of excessive activity or inactivity are found in the Catatonic schizophrenia, wherein the behavior of the person is considered bizarre or abnormal. To identify this type of disorder the patient should have the combination of disorganized behavior and speech, delusion, and hallucination. To diagnose the schizophrenia, one must learn the residual schizophrenia, which is used less with respect to others.

Those who’ve suffered from other forms of schizophrenia mentioned above or any other form in their life, but no longer have well-known symptoms fall in this category. The diagnosis of the schizophrenia is only the process of monitoring the symptoms related with the patient of schizophrenia disorder than something else.

Originally posted 2009-05-06 23:57:17.