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Transcript of Schizophrenia
What is Schizophrenia
a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
The word "schizophrenia" is less than 100 years old. However the disease was first identified as a discrete mental illness by Dr. Emile Krapelin in 1887. The illness is believed that it accompanied mankind through out history
Disorganized thinking (speech)
Extremely disorganized or abnormal motor behavior
Reduced ability or lack of ability to function normally
Suicidal thoughts and behavior
Symptoms in Teenagers
Withdrawal from friends and family
A drop in performance at school
Irritability or depressed mood
Lack of motivation
How people live with it?
Atypical antipsychotics ( i.e. Aripiprazole)
Conventional, or typical, antipsychotics ( i.e. Chlorpromazine, Fluphenazine, Perphenazine)
Treatments: Psychosocial interventions
Social skills training.
Vocational rehabilitation and supported employment.