How should suspected heart disease be treated?

A friend has always asked: Dr. Clove, how can suspected heart disease be treated? Interestingly, after detailed inquiries, we often find that everyone’s [suspicious] [diseases] are different, for example, we always feel that our other half is cheating on ourselves, or we are always worried that the gas valve is not closed properly, or even we are always suspicious that our neighbors want to steal their children… In fact, there is no medical diagnosis of “suspected heart disease”. The above examples are also possible manifestations of different mental diseases, as well as possible manifestations that normal people will have. Let’s make a detailed analysis, [suspected heart disease] may be what [disease]. Always suspected that the other half was stealing people? Read More …

If your family is diagnosed with schizophrenia, you must want to know the answers to these questions.

When the psychiatrist told the patient’s family: According to our current preliminary judgment, he should have schizophrenia, which is a serious mental disease. According to his current condition, we recommend him to be hospitalized. The main treatment method for schizophrenia is drugs, and there are also some other auxiliary treatment methods. During hospitalization, our goal is to find a suitable drug and dosage for him, control the symptoms well, strive to recover to the state before the onset of the disease, then take the medicine and leave the hospital, go home and insist on taking the medicine, and regularly review the clinic. I believe that the vast majority of patients’ families will not feel very good when they hear these Read More …

I know why schizophrenia patients are not good at taking medicine, and I also know that there are good methods for what at these times.

[Medicine can’t stop! ] It’s just an Internet joke, but for many patients with chronic diseases, it’s not just a joke. Schizophrenia patients are one of these patients with chronic diseases. Symptoms have disappeared, can the medicine stop? It is easy to understand that when people are ill, they have various uncomfortable symptoms and need to take medicine. Then when the disease is cured and the symptoms disappear, can the medicine stop? For schizophrenic patients, the answer is no. China’s Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Schizophrenia (2nd Edition) once again emphasize the importance of long-term treatment of schizophrenia. Among them, the guidelines mention the concept of [maintenance therapy], that is, after the symptoms of acute attack of schizophrenia Read More …

How big are the side effects of drugs for psychosis?

It is often said that [drugs for mental illness have great side effects! ] But if you ask carefully: What about the side effects of what? Most people are vague about this. This article will introduce that all the drugs for mental illness have some side effects of what, and whether the side effects are big or not. Is the disease what? Is the medicine what medicine? Generally speaking, [psychosis] refers to a large category of mental disorders with psychotic symptoms as the main manifestations, of which the most important and famous is schizophrenia, and the others also include delusional disorders, schizophrenic mental disorders, schizophrenic affective disorders, etc. The main drug for treating these diseases is antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs Read More …

What are the side effects of new antipsychotic drugs?

Last time we talked about the side effects of [typical antipsychotics] (click to view), this time we talked about the side effects of atypical antipsychotics. Last time we said that [typical antipsychotics] will block the dopamine D2 receptor to death, making it ineffective. There are many differences in [atypical antipsychotics]. Among them, some only block a part of D2 receptor, while others block and immediately release D2 receptor. Some block D2 receptor while affecting other receptors to resist some effects of blocking D2 receptor. In short, these various pharmacological effects have only one purpose, that is, to reduce various side effects of [killing 1,000 enemies and damaging 800 oneself] while controlling psychiatric symptoms. So, does it mean that atypical antipsychotic Read More …