SCHIZOPHRENIA

chizophrenic patients often exhibit certain behaviors and symptoms years before they become fully symptomatic and their “prodrome” tranforms into a full blow psychosis. Schizophrenia is basically when a person who has the disorder totally loses touch with reality. At first, they may see or hear things, and give them totally rational explanations like normal people would, but as their illness progresses, they will attribute completely irrational, paranoid explanations to the things that they see or hear due to their schizophrenia.

This prodrome phase is what experts have long known exists many times before a schizophrenia patient becomes fully sick, many times this phase starts to occur to teenagers or young adults, and they don’t know how to handle it. When they explain it to a mental health professional who is trained to recognize this, they may be entered into a preventive treatment for schizophrenia. Just simply knowing that this is symptomatic of an illness that is known many times can help the patients come to terms with what they are experiencing, since many of them fell that there is something really wrong and that they are embarrassed or ashamed to treatment.

However, the pretreatment has not been proven to be effective in actually keeping full blown schizophrenia at bay, although it has shown to be therapeutic in easing the patient’s mind that their symptoms are known and there are ways to help them. What are the symptoms of schizophrenia and pre-schizophrenia? Well, many times patients will hear voices in their ears or they will see images of light of people or other objects that aren’t really there. It is not totally known what causes the disease, and sometimes people who have these types of visions and delusions actually make a full recover, without going into full blown schizophrenia, which is even harder to explain.

However, if someone recognizes the early signs, they may be able to help the patient get treatment earlier and also help them to prevent cascading down into a depression over a total misunderstanding of their illness and feeling of ilsolation, all of which help to contribute to the intensity of the mental disorder. If you know someone who has confided in you about having these early signs of this disease, urge them to seek professional help, as it may help them in the long run.