Mental Disorders: The Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is one of the greatest mysteries that scientist have not been able to solve. It affect only one percent of the global population.This mental disorder usually occurs in one’s late teens are early twenties. It has no cure and is a lifelong illness, but there are treatments that can help significantly make a person life better.According to the National Institute of Mental Health, schizophrenia is defined as a “chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.” This effects on them makes them all the way lose a touch with reality. The symptoms of schizophrenia vary from person to person and are categorize into three categories. Which are positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms.

Schizophrenics can suffer from all the three categories of symptoms all at once. Positive symptoms are feelings or behaviors that only they can see or hear and not others. Some examples are delusions,hallucinations,and racing thoughts. Negative symptoms are focus of how one loses experiences of life or parts their personality. These symptoms include apathy, lack of social interest, and many more. Cognitive symptoms are symptoms that affect one capability to perceive or handle information. Examples of the symptoms are disorganized thoughts, difficulty in concentrating and a working memory. All of these symptoms make it difficult to treat schizophrenia properly.

Fortunately, scientists have found antipsychotic medications to help their patients symptoms.

Antipsychotics are categorize into two categories, which are first generation (FGA) and second generation (SGA). They categorize like this because FGA where first antipsychotics

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use and now SGA are the newest of antipsychotics. Both antipsychotics categories have the same the principal of how they work. The principal is that both try even out levels of neurotransmitters like dopamine. They been proven to work behind controversy because these drugs only cause more side effects on their patients. Fortunately, there is another way to deal with schizophrenia, which is threw out therapy.
There are many types of therapies that deal with schizophrenia that are way more efficient than medication. Majority of them are goal oriented to help patients in a specific way. For example, a Cognitive Behavior Therapy goal is to help patients change their way of thinking or behavior. While in Horticulture Therapy, the main goal is to use gardening to help recover social skills and motor skills. All therapies can be efficient depending on the patient and their family needs. The only thing that holds therapies to be a hundred percent efficient is that the patient needs to take the medication to improve. Which leads to whole series of problems for everyone.
The only way to get a true cure for this illness is to find out the cause of it. Many scientists agree upon the fact that genes have to do a lot with this illness. Also they agree that biological and environmental factors contribute to the cause too. Until there is a cause of horrible and disabling illness, patients and their families have to cope so many unnecessary pains. These pains that they cope with can be a hell for the patient and their families because they face many mental, social, and economic battles.

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The mental barriers that schizophrenics have to cope with is that they have to accept they are ill. This is hard fact for anyone to accept that they are ill. Which leads to many of them to not believe they are sick and stop taking their medication. Also another mental challenge they have to cope with is with their symptoms. Their symptoms only get worse if they stop taking medication and they will never improve to be better. Finally, the hardest mental barrier is their way of thinking because any type of fear or pressure can change their normal train of thought.