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5 Things You Need To Know About Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder discriminated by disturbances in thoughts, behaviors, and emotions.”

Many individuals and family members fail to recognize what their adored one is suffering from? This is because of two things,

  • Lack of knowledge about the respective illness or disorder.
  • Surfing google about symptoms rather than reaching out to professionals.

Research suggests that, despite being a treatable disorder, more than 50% of the individuals with schizophrenia can’t access adequate treatment in that 90% untreated individuals living in this developing digital India. So throwing a beam of light on 5 schizophrenia things which you definitely need to know,

Everyone has different symptoms:

The first and foremost thing that has to be engraved in the mind of everyone is about the symptoms. An old phrase says “Not all the fingers are same” likewise, the symptoms are not same for all the schizophrenic cases.

Yes! There are some common existing symptoms but each and every individual is unique in nature and they differ person to person with respect to their severity of the disorder and mental strength. Some may encounter only psychosis and some may have hallucinations. So don’t confuse and conclude with respect  to symptoms. Click here to know about causes of schizophrenia.

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Not all the schizophrenics are violent:  

The most common mistake what everyone thinks about the suffering individuals is “They are always violent”. In case the individual is subjected to substance abuse there is a high chance of becoming violent. This sort of condition mostly directed at family members at home. Another common mistake people do after they tend to see this kind of situation in their adored one, they cage them into the house and isolate them from the society, which might only increase their rage and severity of the disorder. If you come to see these symptoms the first thing you should do is, reach a professional help.

Cease of medication cause some serious long-term problems:

Some individuals stop taking their prescribed medication when they might feel a little better. As a result, they will decide not to take it anymore. Then comes the real trouble, the individual encounters lot of mental and physical problems. Suffering might include loss of brain functionality even the individual tries to continue the medication after the break also might increase the severity of the functionality to the level it was at earlier

Symptoms of  Schizophrenia:

Listed are some of the common symptoms of schizophrenia

Hallucination: The individuals may observe things that don’t exist.

Delusion: Beliefs that the individual is living in a fake reality.

Disorganized speech: The person may have impaired conversation

Disorganized behavior: Approach might display from childish displays to unpredictable anxiety.

Negative symptoms: Personality may undergo decreased or lack of capacity to function normally

Difficult in concentrating: Fail to focus on simple things

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Schizophrenia is completely treatable:

In order to get rid of schizophrenia in the best possible way is following the advice of professionals and following the proper medication routine. Delaying treatment process or withdrawal is a completely dangerous for both sufferer and the family members. All the behaviors of the schizophrenic individuals are legitimate. If you are now understanding the systems of schizophrenia reach out for the professional help at +91 96111 94949 or visit www.cadabams.org

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