Tag: Schizophrenia

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A Regrettable Story-About Schizophrenia

Four years in psychiatry, I have come to understand a group of people whose ability to live is impaired. Several diseases that are not understood. This group of patients [who can never go back to the past], It always evokes my deep sympathy. And among these patients, Most of them are [schizophrenia], That is, the public may be familiar with, But it is not really understood. Schizophrenia is a disease state proposed by psychiatrist Brueller in the 20th century. At present, the cause of the disease is not clear, Most of them are young adults aged 15-45, The lifetime prevalence rate of adults is about 1%. The clinical features of this disease include: Association disorder, affective apathy, lack of will Read More …

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Can schizophrenic patients also get depression?

One day, Dr. Clove received a question: “Do schizophrenics also suffer from depression?” ] He threw the problem to everyone. This is not true. Heroes from all walks of life have expressed their views. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia The first person to appear was a big fellow with a gloomy and stiff voice. I am the second son of a prominent [schizophrenic] family. I can see what you can’t see and hear what you can’t hear. I, can connect things that you think have nothing to do with each other, intuitively feel that someone loves me and someone wants to hurt me. I cry when I am happy and laugh when I am sad. Although I am in the same Read More …

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Do violent crimes happen more to patients with mental illness?

In the media, we often see that the people who hurt people, set fires and made trouble are [mental patients]. Early in the morning, a police car brought a patient who beat his mother. I will take this opportunity to take you to get a close look at the [true face] of the mentally ill who hit people. Police: It is not difficult to control something that has happened, I will first find out the situation from the child policeman Zhang Da. The following is his story. Doctor, this time it was Da Liu, a patient from our district, who called his mother early in the morning. The neighborhood committee called us and said that I knew it was this Read More …

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Can you really cure your mental illness by electrifying your brain?

Before the discovery of psychotropic drugs in the 1950s and 1960s, the prospects for the treatment of mental diseases were really bleak. At that time, there were only three types of treatments available-electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), insulin coma and psychiatric surgery. As a result, many patients have been imprisoned in psychiatric hospitals all their lives, while others are in [infinite reincarnation]-once discharged from hospital, they will not be able to live a normal life, will become ill again, and will soon be hospitalized again. Insulin-induced epilepsy for psychosis? Researchers found that for patients suffering from both schizophrenia and epilepsy, when epilepsy symptoms worsen, mental symptoms will be relieved. In the 1930s, a Hungarian doctor tried to alleviate schizophrenia by inducing seizures, Read More …

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Do you need to see a doctor if you feel uncomfortable?

Case 2: 43-year-old Teacher Zhu is a university professor. Six months ago, I had an academic argument with people at work. Later, insomnia occurred, It is suspected that the unit leader intentionally opposes her. Every time I finish my meal in the canteen at noon, I feel dizzy, my hands are swollen and my throat is blocked. The leader is suspected to have poisoned the food. In the past month, On the way home, I felt that the unit had sent someone to follow me. Some people hurt themselves. Go to the hospital to see a doctor, suspecting that the leader colluded with the doctor to prescribe poison to harm himself. Think that the body was broken down, once went Read More …

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Have you ever had such misunderstanding about patients with mental illness?

You must have seen sunflowers blooming in the sun. They bloom heartily to the sun like bright smiling faces. But have you ever seen sunflowers in the shadow? They stood in the darkness that the sun could not shine, lonely and sad, and the hanging flower tray seemed to cry silently. A survey conducted by the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2009 showed that there were more than 100 million patients with various mental diseases in China. According to the 2013 data released by the Chinese Medical Association, The number of diabetics with the highest incidence in the world is 139 million. Mental diseases, like high-risk diseases such as diabetes, It is increasingly becoming a common disease Read More …

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Don’t want to live? This may be a [disease]

Is suicide a personal right? Many countries are discussing whether people have the right to end their lives. Psychologist Thomas Szasz and doctor Jack Kevorkian believe that how people die is a basic human right that is not controlled by the state. However, other researchers said that most of the attempted suicides did not commit suicide again later, which indicates that they did not really want to end their lives. However, it must be noted that the risk of suicide again is still higher than that of the average person, so we need to intervene with the attempted suicides. In fact, most people who intend to commit suicide are hesitant about [whether to end their lives]. The choices of many Read More …

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How do you prove that you are not mentally ill?

True and false mental illness, silly can’t tell? In 1972, Stanford University psychology professor Rosenham wondered whether psychiatric diagnosis could withstand the test: would disguised mental patients be detected? He recruited eight normal people, and training: Pretend to have auditory hallucinations, Other normal, And do not do personal hygiene before admission, He smelled sour all over. Then he went to the psychiatric hospital with nine people. All were diagnosed with schizophrenia. After the results were released, A psychiatric hospital refused to accept, Let Rosenham put his horse on. Rosenham said, In the past three months, some normal people will be arranged to see a doctor to see if they can distinguish them. Three months later, the psychiatric hospital said it Read More …

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It’s hard to tell the true from the false! The Legend of Electric Shock Treating Psychosis

Perhaps because of the famous movie “Flying over the Madhouse”, in the imagination of many people, the electroshock therapy in the field of psychiatry is like this: the patient is tied to the bed in pain, and the whole body is convulsive and trembling because of the electroshock. In fact, this barbaric scene has long been history, but electroshock therapy is not [outdated]. Why does such cruel treatment still exist? Who and when is it used? Let’s put aside our prejudices and understand it. The truth is often surprising. Can electric shock therapy lead to epileptic seizures? This is true, but the therapeutic effect of electroshock therapy also comes from epileptic seizures. The depressive symptoms of patients will be improved Read More …

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Depression? Schizophrenia? Or is it just laziness?

Xiao Zhang was originally easy-going, got along well with his colleagues in the company, and made great progress in his work, but recently, it seems that there is something wrong with the whole person. In the past six months, he has become like a different person. He has become unwilling to go to work, saying that his work is boring. His colleagues are also not good to him. He often speaks ill of him. The leaders also deliberately put on his shoes. Later, it became common for him to be late and leave early. When he was in the company, he was only immersed in his own world, neither chatting with his colleagues nor doing his job well. When he Read More …