Need for Schizophrenic Medication
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.