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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2020 16:35:35 GMT
www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/schizophreniaSchizophrenia 4 October 2019 Key facts Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder affecting 20 million people worldwide (1). Schizophrenia is characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self and behaviour. Common experiences include hallucinations (hearing voices or seeing things that are not there) and delusions (fixed, false beliefs). Worldwide, schizophrenia is associated with considerable disability and may affect educational and occupational performance. People with schizophrenia are 2-3 times more likely to die early than the general population (2). This is often due to preventable physical diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease and infections. Stigma, discrimination and violation of human rights of people with schizophrenia is common. Schizophrenia is treatable. Treatment with medicines and psychosocial support is effective. Facilitation of assisted living, supported housing and supported employment are effective management strategies for people with schizophrenia.
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Post by Admin on May 12, 2020 11:30:44 GMT
Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects the way a person thinks. Schizophrenia affects around 1 in 100 people and can only be diagnosed by a psychiatrist. There are different types of schizophrenia. You can find out more about these at Rethink Mental Illness. What are some of the symptoms of schizophrenia? Symptoms of schizophrenia can include: Hallucinations Delusions, including paranoia Confused thoughts and feelings Withdrawal from family and friends Extreme lack of interest Loss of motivation www.time-to-change.org.uk/about-mental-health/types-problems/schizophreniaSee the Bigger Picture - Antonio's Story www.time-to-change.org.uk/blog/see-bigger-picture-antonios-story
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Post by Admin on Aug 10, 2020 14:34:46 GMT
Whole argument as to whether schizophrenia is a genetic brain condition best managed with medication - or if there are other factors involved in it all & better ways of treating it all? i don't think we'll have a more categorical answer to it all for hundreds more years.
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Post by Admin on Aug 11, 2020 10:14:50 GMT
Whole argument as to whether schizophrenia is a genetic brain condition best managed with medication - or if there are other factors involved in it all & better ways of treating it all? i don't think we'll have a more categorical answer to it all for hundreds more years. Regardless of what schizophrenia is / isn't - & even if it is wholly a genetic brain disease - sufferers need psychological / emotional, relational, social, environmental help & support - they have human needs the same as anyone else. Not the persons fault who has schizophrenia that they have it or the ways they get treated. Here is what one person says about open dialogue - Luc De Bry Well, for the precision: "Open Dialogue" was born out of the District of Western Lapland, North-Finland, going broke not being able to sustain the biomedical model of Psychiatry". (Thus, it was not born out of entire Finland. - OK?) The rest of Finland, having the highest number of psychiatrists per 100.000 people of all Europe, does not embrace "Open Dialogue". The reason of why is that so was stated by Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968): "It Is Difficult to Get a Man (many psychiatrists in this case) to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It." Therefore, I learnt to work along he recommandation of Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983): “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” That is precisely what they have done in Western-Lapland: they did not fight the existing psychiatry model. Better, they invested their scarce resources at developing the "Open Dialogue Model". As a result, they rendered obsolete: * the diagnoses, * the DSM-books, * the psychiatry textbooks, * the psych-drugs, * the expensive psychiatric hospitals, * the psychiatry..., and... * the psychiatrists... (smile)
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Post by Admin on Nov 20, 2020 9:47:45 GMT
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.
Philip K. Dick
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2022 20:22:22 GMT
Introduction
Experts now agree that schizophrenia develops as a result of interplay between biological predisposition (for example, inheriting certain genes) and the kind of environment a person is exposed to. These lines of research are converging: brain development disruption is now known to be the result of genetic predisposition and environmental stressors early in development (during pregnancy or early childhood), leading to subtle alterations in the brain that make a person susceptible to developing schizophrenia. Environmental factors later in life (during early childhood and adolescence) can either damage the brain further and thereby increase the risk of schizophrenia, or lessen the expression of genetic or neurodevelopmental defects and decrease the risk of schizophrenia. In fact experts now say that schizophrenia (and all other mental illness) is caused by a combination of biological, psychological and social factors, and this understanding of mental illness is called the bio-psycho-social model.
schizophrenia.com/hypo.php
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Post by Admin on Jun 11, 2023 0:43:11 GMT
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