Schizophrenia: Causes And Treatments

Posted by Pooja Sharma on December 17th, 2020

In the current scenario people are extremely busy with their hectic schedules. People prefer staying alone in the big cities in their apartments.. Most often mental illnesses are caused due to loneliness, people don't like sharing their life problems with others so become mentally sick. There are various types of mental illness like depression, anxiety and schizophrenia. Being under a lot  of pressure, facing problems in day to day life, being humiliated faced accidents or by some incident one is so much hurt that they affect mental, loss of close ones. There can be many reasons for mental illness, but the main thing is that in most cases it is very hard to diagnose if the person is suffering from a mental illness. Occasionally  there are issues where even the individual doesn’t realise about the problems they are facing. Mental illness can be cured if one realises it at an earlier stage. 

Schizophrenia is one of the critical disorders of the brain, where people start making fake assumptions. It's very hard for the people suffering from the disease to make a difference between the imagination and the reality.The people suffering from schizophrenia lose control over their minds and mix their assumptions and real life which can further be dangerous. They start facing difficulties in coping with the family and the society. When the people realise the problem they start feeling scared and keeping contact with their known people. 

The Main Symptoms of Schizophrenia

There are numerous symptoms of Schizophrenia some of the basic symptoms are mentioned below:-

• Delusion:- People facing the condition make false beliefs and start believing them. Most of the time they assume being ill treated by their friends due to which they start ignoring the friends. They imagine that they are proposed by someone special which can further add more troubles in their life. In most of the cases we have seen people suffering from this disease often make new friends leaving their old ones behind.

• Hallucinations:- When the person is suffering from this ment disorder they start hallucinating things that do not exist at all. They start hearing imaginary sounds, a person can imagine themselves doing a plenty of activities and think that they have done it in real.

• Behavioural changes:- Schizophrenia is such a sort of mental disease where people tend to forget their real life and start living in the fake life of imagination. Occasional people face behavioural changes like the people start behaving like a kid. Doing silly things, reacting upon unnecessary things, from time to time abnormal behaviour. People often start doing unpredictable things which sometimes can lead to a lot of problems.

• Senseless speaking:- People often tend to make such statements which do not make sense at all. We can say that whenever they speak to others either they go out of topic or speak in breaking sentences. The main thing is even they do not realise what they are speaking. This can also lead to other issues like people start feeling less confident, and avoid meeting the people. 

• Negativeness in life:-  They start feeling negative in life, as a result they opt for numerous negative behaviours. They start hating their loved ones, and make excuses to face them. They start neglecting themselves, they stop staying hygienic. They fill their life with utmost negative situations. 

• Instability in life:- Some of the people stop doing their daily activities,they start lacking emotions. They lack emotions while speaking, they do not change their expressions and keep a single look on the face.

• Decision making power:- People often lack decision making power, they are unable to make the decision at the moment. They try to ignore topics if they are asked to answer any sort of question.

• Less Focused:- As the person is not able to make decisions they even are not focused in anything they do. Even if they are doing the things they loved to do earlier but now due to this disorder they face a hard time focusing on it.

• Descending performance:- These kinds of situations are mostly faced by the students, in the school and colleges they stop taking part in the activities. Their grades also decline to the extent of speed.

Treatment For Schizophrenia

Though most of the time these disorders cannot be fully cured but sometimes the treatment does help to overcome these critical disorders. Some of the treatments are as follows:-

1. Use of medicine:- If one consults the best doctor then there are chances to get rid of this disorder. With the advancement in technology nowadays one can find various medicines to control these diseases.

2. Therapies with the Specialist:- If one is suffering from this disorder then they need to consult a good therapist, who can meet you daily and try to control your disorder via numerous therapy like communication, daily activities and so on.

Hence if anyone is facing this condition consult the prominent professional who can help you control these disorders.