Schizophrenia
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- Look for symptoms
- Jerry - hallucination
- Julia - is helping Jack with his schizophrenia
- Jack - has schizophrenia
- Get a diagnosis
- Doctor's Office
- See a psyciatrist
- Learning about and identifying symptoms of schizophrenia is crucial to being able to treat it. It is impossible to help someone with schizophrenia if you don't know that they have it. Also, according to healthline.com, learning more about schizophrenia is the first step in helping a person with schizophrenia.
- Take the meds
- Mayo Clinic states that "although you can't force someone to seek professional help, you can offer encouragement and support and help your loved one find a qualified doctor or mental health professional." Your loved one's GP can give them a proper diagnosis and refer them to a psychiatrist.
- Do exercise
- According to wikipedia.com, psychiatrists are doctors that specialise in the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. They can give prescriptions for medications that can help alleviate some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations. Psychiatrists can also provide cognitive behavioural therapy, family therapy and so forth.
- Look out for warning signs of a relapse
- Medication is the main way of dealing with symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations. Making sure that your loved one continues taking their medication can prevent a relapse in symptoms. (https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-disorders/helping-someone-with-schizophrenia.htm)
- According to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov "Exercise therapy has been shown to improve positive and negative symptoms, quality of life, cognition, and hippocampal plasticity, and to increase hippocampal volume in the brains of patients with schizophrenia." This basically means that exercise can reduce most of the effects of schizophrenia. Increasing hippocampal volume means that memory is less impaired, and improving hippocampal plasticity makes it easier to learn new things .
- A relapse is when a disease gets worse after a period of improvement. They most commonly happen when coming off medication. Signs of relapse include Common warning signs of a schizophrenia relapse include insomnia, social withdrawal, difficulty concentrating, loss of interest, increasing paranoia, and hallucinations, according to everydayhealth.com. If you notice any of these warning signs, contact a doctor immediately.
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