Schrizophrenia
Schrizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a group of disorders characterised by perturbations in language, perception, cognition and behaviour.
Types
- There are four major types of schizophrenic disorders – catatonic, disorganised, paranoid and undifferentiated.
- Schizophrenic patients may also be classified as type I or type II.
- Type I patients have a predominance of “positive” symptoms, normal ventricular size and good response to antipsychotic drugs.
- Type II patients have a predominance of “negative” symptoms, increased ventricular size and a poor response to antipsychotic drugs.
Symptoms
Clinical manifestations can be considered under three headings, the first-rank symptoms (which strongly suggest a diagnosis of schizophrenia), other symptoms of lower diagnostic significance and the negatice symptoms. Group I and II together form the positive symptoms.
First-rank symptoms
- Thought insertion
- Thought broadcasting
- Passivity feelings
- Auditory hallucinations
- Delusional perceptions
Other symptoms
- Catatonia
- Thought disorder
- Neologisms
- Delusions – grandiose, paranoid, sexual or religious
- Visual, tactile, olfactory or gustatory hallucinations
- Affective change
Negative symptoms
- Social withdrawal
- Poverty of speec
- Flatness of affect
Treatments
- Medical management is the primary treatment in schizophrenia.
Homeopathy being a system of medicine which acts deeply on all the parts of your body including your mind helps in curing such conditions from within and permanently.
It is the most gentle treatment which has no side effects nor habit forming for the patients.
Few homoeopathic medicines which acts wonderfully on schrizophrenia are belladonna, hyoscyamus niger, pulsatilla pratensis etc.
- Such patients function best in environment that has regular and predictable routine.