Paranoid Schizophrenia

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.