One of the best ways to fight against stigma is by exposure. Exposure is when someone who suffers from schizophrenia disorder begins to accept the fact that he has difficulties and he needs to take care of himself.
Taking care of him when having schizophrenia, is not a common routine among people who suffer from schizophrenia. Most of the (more…)
The controversy between people, who support only the opinion of giving the one and only drug treatment, to people who thinks that this treatment should be combined with an alternative treatment, or as the only treatment, never had been more charged than nowadays.
More and more people understand that giving drugs in order to cure a disease, or giving relief to its symptoms, can’t be the only treatment given. More and more find more common the opinion that drugs alone can’t do the whole healing work. There has to be (more…)
From my own experience, very common phenomena when a person who has psychotic disorder, share is a very rapid thinking. You feel like as if an atom bomb is exploding inside your mind.
It feels like your thoughts are going from one to another, without being able to control them. You jumps from one (more…)
When having Schizophrenia, people tend to develop different kind of side affects, addictions and accompanied illnesses such as – gaining weight, high level of cholesterol and bad lipids, high blood pressure, lack of physical activity, dental caries and so on.
The main reason for all of the above, tend to be mainly lack of motivation and a total despair. (more…)
The paranoia symptoms in short are – being suspicious, thinking that everybody is plotting some kind of a conspiracy. You suspects that your friends, parents, neighbors, colleague are talking about you, everybody wants to harm you or even want to kill you. You are sure that people are following you in the street, and so on.
But, after all those scary things that can happen to you, (more…)
How to convince your loved one to get the proper treatment? This is the one million dollar question!
Many people ask me this question after they get frustrated and almost give up trying and convincing they’re loved one to receive the proper medical treatment they need.
From my own experience and personal knowledge, (more…)
Falling in love is the most basic characteristic of humane being. With out getting in love, there won’t be a continuation to our generation. People who get in love are realizing they’re own existence.
So if this subject is so basic to our existence, why is it so difficult to get into relationships between a person who suffer from schizophrenia and another “Normal” person? (more…)
This brave sufferer explains what Schizophrenia is in general and Paranoid Schizophrenia in more specific. (more…)
Defeating Schizophrenia By Setting Goals
One of the most successful ways to achieve things in life is by setting goals. Setting goals is when you decide on a target that you want to achieve, and build a plan of action of how to get it.
Setting goals for defeating schizophrenia is exactly the way that can lead you into prosperity and to live comfortably side by side with your schizophrenia negative symptoms. This method is the most common and well known between many other methods.
In order to set your goal to defeat schizophrenia, you should (more…)
When you suffer from schizophrenia, after the psychosis is gone, you would enter the remission period. While the remission, it’s inevitable that you would suffer the negative symptoms such as – a lack of motivation, depression, chronic weariness and a very little physical activity. One more characteristic is that sufferers tend to be a heavily smokers.
We can call these symptoms as the Schizophrenia Side Effects. The dangers from (more…)