Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
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.