Schizophrenia
- Created by: georgiasadler
- Created on: 07-05-14 14:20
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- SCHIZOPHRENIA
- What is it?
- Complex mental illness
- Difficulties in thought processes
- Leads to psychotic symptoms
- Hallucinations
- seeing/hearing something that is not there
- Delusions
- incorrect belief based on misinterpretation of perception
- Grandoise delusions are seen as important to someone
- Disordered thinking
- Unusual speech or behaviour
- Hallucinations
- Discrepancy between thinking and feeling
- Most common psychiatric disorder
- 3 per 1000 in the UK
- What happens?
- Often starts suddenly and catastrophically
- Acute Schizophrenia
- May go onto produce a chronic, ongoing illness
- Nearly 80% of those who have had a first episode will recover
- 70% will have a second episode within 5-7 years
- Happens differently for each person
- Usually involves a dramatic disturbance in either thoughts or feelings
- First signs develop in adolescence
- Socially withdrawn
- Changes in sleeping patterns
- Often starts suddenly and catastrophically
- Symptoms
- Delusions
- Incorrect belief based on misinterpretation of perception
- Hallucinations
- Visual or auditory
- Incoherence
- Don't make sense
- Catatonic (not moving) or hyperactive
- Flat affect
- Drifting between ideas
- Lack of hygiene and thouights about appearance
- Delusions
- Treatment
- Anti-psychotic drug
- Tablet or injection
- Stops hallucinations
- Makes you think clearly
- Makes you put on weight
- Tiredness
- Gives you the shakes
- Avoiding drugs and alcohol
- Regular reviews with doctor
- Counselling / support groups
- Self-care
- Maintaining physical and mental health
- Anti-psychotic drug
- Causes
- Genetics
- Drugs
- alter levels of neurotransmitters in brain
- Brain development
- different structures and small changes in brain cells
- Head injury as a child
- Mother bleeding during pregnancy
- Abnormal child
- Mother having viruses during pregnancy
- Impacts
- Physical
- Lack of energy
- Risk of suicide
- Self-harming
- Intellectual
- Confusion
- Unable to concentrate at work/school
- Family has to learn how to care for them
- Emotional
- Stress
- Denial
- Fear
- Embarrassment
- Hostile
- Uncertainty
- Concerned
- Social
- Withdrawn
- Lack of trust
- Lack of social support and stigma
- Partners/family become more like nurses
- Financial
- Unable to concentrate at work
- Time off due to symptoms or treatment
- Physical
- What is it?
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