Do people with Schizophrenia no they are becoming ill?!
Question: Do people with Schizophrenia no they are becoming ill!?
do they no they are becoming ill and when they see and hear things do they atually think they are real!?i just wanted some info becouse my friends dad has just bin admitted to a mental health unit becouse he though he had spirits inside his body makin him try and kill people!.!.can he get better and live a normal life!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
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No! Not in my case!. I first became ill while writing a thesis at a university in the wee hours of the morning; it was a sudden attack and the symptoms didn't really become bad for several years, persisted for a few years and quit just as suddenly as they had appeared!. I was under psychiatric care and medication after the first couple years and heave been continuously since!. The things I heard and saw were to me just as real as any other life experience!. He can get better!. I have been able to live a fairly normal life due, I think, to the TLC of family, doctors, nurses and friends!. Medications do not seem to me to stop the hallucinations but help ones moods so that he can cope with them better!. I do not hallucinate any more!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Usually they do!. Generally people with Schizophrenia will have a "prodromal" phase in which milder symptoms appear over weeks, months or sometimes years before a frank psychotic episode!. Psychotic episodes usually appear gradually with some paranoid/bizarre thinking or occasional hallucinations but can sometimes erupt suddenly!. Many people with a history of schizophrenia (who have been in full or partial remission) can identify certain symptoms that indicate they are becoming ill again!. But some people respond poorly to medications, remain ill and have little or no insight into their illness!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
No, they dont know that they are becoming ill because the voices and the rest of the hallucinations appear valid at first!. The only way that they can guage it is if they ask other people for a reality check!.
Yes, he can get better with medication he can live a relatively normal life - as best he can!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Yes, he can get better with medication he can live a relatively normal life - as best he can!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
to them it is real and they will not believe you that it is not realWww@Answer-Health@Com