What is schizophrenia. What happens to a schizoid person? What are the symptoms?does it have a cure or can?

Question

the state of the patient only be improved through medication? What kind of social and medical treatment should be given to a patient who tends to get violent ?

HEY PANDORA SPIDER I AM NOT A SCHIZOID. I CAME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS THATS WHY I ASKED

Answer 1

The link the first answerer above provides an excellent explanation...I will add before I became a stay at home Mom I worked in the field of mental health and mental retardation for 15 years...7 of those years were in a group home for people with chronic mental illness.. I worked with many people who had schizophrenia and there is not a cure, but chemical treatment (meaning medication) can offer some stability...this along with therapy can help people with this disorder live a more normal life....People who have violent tendencies meaning are a threat to themselves and others need more protection and are often in group home settings or hospitalized until there is control over these outbreaks...It is for their own protection and the protection of society....
Peace.

Answer 2

To reply your query,schizophernia cannot be cured,a character who has it demands medicines to aid stablize the indicators of the sickness.Sometimes individuals who have the sickness could even say they shouldn't have meds or believe there's not anything fallacious with them,however in doing that they're at top hazard of getting their signs come again,plus it might create extra disorders for them.Lots of persons who've schizophrenia don't like taking the medicines when you consider that of the various aspect results a few have,however this is the reason speakme to the healthcare professional is so main in those forms of matters a character has.Having schizopheria does not make you much less of a character,there is many persons who can lead healthful and efficient lives despite the fact that they have got the sickness.Just desired to notify you i'm married to any person who has paranoid schizophrenia and is presently on medicines and is doing good.

Answer 3

Schizophrenia is the separation of the mind from reality. This occurs without instigation generally. There is no cure for it. The symptoms are seeing people that others can't see or you doing things that make absolutely no sense to others. As I earlier stated there is no cure, but there is treatment. I'd suggest seeing a psychiatrist and if you have time watch the movie "A Beautiful Mind." Best of luck!

Answer 4

Schizophrenia is a collection of related psychiatric disorders of unknown etiology that follow a specific pattern of behavior. Typical behavior seen in schizophrenia includes psychotic episodes in which there is a severe mental disturbance and perceptions of reality are distorted. Psychotic episodes may also involve hallucinations. Schizophrenics often have delusions about personal identity, immediate surroundings or society, and paranoia. Schizophrenia has a component of heredity, but many factors other than genetics are involved. Schizophrenia is treated with antipsychotic medication.

Symptoms of schizophrenia
Patients with a possible diagnosis of schizophrenia are evaluated on the basis of a set or constellation of symptoms; there is no single symptom that is unique to schizophrenia. In 1959, the German psychiatrist Kurt Schneider proposed a list of so-called first-rank symptoms, which he regarded as diagnostic of the disorder.

These symptoms include:

- delusions
- somatic
- hallucinations
- hearing voices commenting on the patient's behavior
- thought insertion or thought withdrawal
- Somatic hallucinations refer to sensations or perceptions concerning body organs that have no known medical cause or reason, such as the notion that one's brain is radioactive. Thought insertion and/or withdrawal refer to delusions that an outside force (for example, the FBI, the CIA, Martians, etc.) has the power to put thoughts into one's mind or remove them.

Treatment and services
The concept of 'curing' schizophrenia is controversial, partly because there are no clear criteria for what might constitute a cure. Some criteria for the remission of symptoms have recently been suggested. The efficacy of schizophrenia treatment is often assessed by using standardized assessment methods, one of the most common being the positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS).

Medication
The first line pharmacological therapy for schizophrenia is usually antipsychotic medication. Antipsychotic drugs are thought to mainly provide symptomatic relief from the positive symptoms of psychosis. The newer atypical antipsychotic medications are now usually preferred over the older typical antipsychotic medications. Compared to the typical antipsychotics, the atypicals are associated with a lower incident rate of extrapyramidal adverse effects (EPS) and tardive dyskinesia (TD) although they are more likely to induce weight gain and obesity-related diseases. It is still unclear whether the newer antipsychotics reduce the chances of developing the rare but potentially life-threatening neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS).

Atypical and typical antipsychotics are generally thought to be equivalent in efficacy for the treatment of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. It has been suggested by some researchers that the atypicals have some additional beneficial effects on negative symptoms and cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia, although the clinical significance of these effects has yet to be established. However, recent reviews have suggested that typical antipsychotics, when dosed conservatively, may have similar effects to atypicals.[88] The atypical antipsychotics are much more costly to purchase and profitable to market, as they are still within patent, whereas the older drugs are now available in inexpensive generic forms. Aripiprazole is a drug from a new class of antipsychotic drugs (variously named 'dopamine system stabilizers' or 'partial dopamine agonists') that has also recently been developed and is now widely licensed for the treatment of schizophrenia....

Answer 5

Please note that being "schizoid" has nothing to do with schizophrenia. Someone who is schizoid has schizoid personality disorder (SPD), which is very different from schizophrenia. The word for someone who has schizophrenia is "schizophrenic".

The answerer above me gave pretty good information about schizophrenia. You might find some additional information about schizophrenia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia

Answer 6

schizophrenia is when people display a detachment from reality, disorganized thinking, and inappopriate emotions. its a mental disorder, and there are several different types. the person is sort of in their ''own little world.'' shizophrenia can be treated with medication, but it cannot be cured.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia