How to treat schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is only a small category of mental illness, but this does not ignore the serious impact that schizophrenia has on the patient's body. The specific symptoms of schizophrenia are that the patient develops two or more personalities, which can cause serious harm to society. Therefore, patients with schizophrenia must go to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. What are the specific measures taken when treating schizophrenia?

1. How to treat psychosis?

Drug treatment

Antipsychotic drugs can effectively control acute and chronic mental symptoms and improve the clinical remission rate of schizophrenia; those who adhere to maintenance treatment during the remission period can avoid relapse; they often play a positive role in preventing mental decline. There are currently more than 40 types of antipsychotic drugs.

Commonly used drugs include chlorpromazine, clozapine, sulpiride, perphenazine, haloperidol, etc. Chlorpromazine is the first choice drug for complications. Chlorpromazine and clozapine have good therapeutic effects on average. Haloperidol has a mild anti-hallucination and anti-delusion effect, and can alleviate or eliminate the symptoms of loneliness and withdrawal. It is suitable for acute and chronic schizophrenia.

Psychiatric treatment

It refers to psychotherapy in a broad sense. Pure psychoanalysis is not applicable to this disease. As an auxiliary treatment, this method is beneficial to improving and consolidating the therapeutic effect. It is suitable for patients in the recovery stage with delusional and obvious mental factors. Behavioral therapy is beneficial to the management and rehabilitation of chronic patients.

Electroconvulsive therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy is effective in treating those with severe nervous excitement and stupor, excitement and agitation, hurting others, self-harm and negative emotions. After the symptoms are controlled, psychotropic drug treatment should be used.

Insulin coma treatment

It is more effective for delusional and juvenile schizophrenia. Because the treatment is complex, it requires specialized facilities and supervision by trained personnel. Due to limitations such as long treatment periods, this treatment has now been almost replaced by more convenient and safer antipsychotic drugs.

2. Causes of psychosis

Schizophrenia is a clinical syndrome composed of a group of symptoms and is a multifactorial disease. Although the cause of the disease is still unclear, it is generally acknowledged that the individual's psychological susceptibility and the adverse factors of the external social environment play a role in the occurrence and development of the disease. Both susceptibility and external adverse factors may lead to the occurrence of the disease through the combined effects of internal biological factors. The factors that cause the disease in different patients may be more important in one aspect.

3. How to diagnose psychosis

The commonly used diagnostic standards abroad include the United States' Classification of Diseases and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual DSM-Ⅳ-TR and the WHO's International Classification of Diseases ICD-10. The commonly used diagnostic standards in China are the Chinese Classification and Diagnostic Criteria for Mental Disorders CCMD-3.

How to prevent psychosis

1. We must understand the factors that affect the relapse of schizophrenia. Modern psychiatric research shows that in addition to objective factors of the disease itself, such as pre-onset personality defects and family genetic history, the ability to regularly adhere to drug maintenance treatment and family environment treatment is an important factor affecting the recurrence of schizophrenia. For example, although family members have long been responsible for taking care of the patient's basic life, they often do not know how to care for the patient, how to deal with the patient's abnormal words and deeds, and how to provide a good family treatment environment. ,

2. For the patient's family, caring for schizophrenia patients is itself a very heavy mental burden. They often show emotional reactions such as anxiety, guilt, worry and depression, and cannot deal with the patient's abnormal behavior correctly. Some people pay too much attention to and protect patients, which reduces the patients' contact with society and greatly increases the relapse rate of patients. Studies have shown that patients who live with their spouses have a lower recurrence rate, while divorced and single patients have a higher recurrence rate. Discrimination by friends, neighbors, and family, and reduced job opportunities, can make a patient's condition worse.

3. Reduce the inducing factors: To prevent schizophrenia, we must start with the inducing factors of the disease. We must be able to distinguish the symptoms of schizophrenia and the weakness of the patient's mental state after the illness. In life, we should arrange work and study reasonably.