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    Schizophrenia

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    What do you mean theres no paranoid schizophrenia with psychotic features? Having a psychotic feature means you have a feature that is not in touch with reality hence why someone with psychosis can present with hallucinations or delusions regarding themselves. They can have psychotic features with paranoia. For example, a person with paranoid schizophrenia will think their neighbour is spying on them (hallucination). The person will then have a delusion that he/she is a significant person or someone with great importance. The person will then be paranoid that the neighbour will kill them or harm them and eventually be paranoid about a lot of people in his/her life. T

     

    I will kindly suggest you do not know what you are talking about. For instance, the example you give above is not a hallucination, nor would it lead to to them being delusional that they are important. If anything, it would somewhat be the reverse, as in people must be spying on them because they are so great.

     

    Interesting you say that, because sometimes its actually hard to distinguish the two and sometimes its easy. The thing is, with schizophrenia the person is not intouch with reality at all. But with someone who has bi polar disease they are. And only present with psychotic features when they are going through a manic episode or a "high" which can last about a week. Someone with schizophrenia however will never be intouch with reality unless they take their meds.

     

    This last statement is false, read up a little on schizophrenia and myths about it. Also, if one really can't distinguish between schizophrenia and psychosis from a manic episode there are other provisional diagnoses that can be given rather than jumping to the most severe one. Often there are other factors that could help point one in the right direction for diagnosis. Again, I see this quite often and usually with a couple of questions about symptoms, presentation, and history it can be figured out. Also, manic episodes can last a lot longer than 1 week.

     

    What do you mean its not a hallucination? I know hallucination is when they hear, see, smell or touch something that is actually not there. Maybe it wasnt such a good example but its a hallucination if the neighbour itself is not physically there (Like i have seen from one CATT team experiences. They may see the neighbour looking at them, or even hear them but they arent actually there. Im not saying that every patient WILL lead to being delusional if they were going through this but it CAN. And ive seen it happen. Im using that as one example that Ive experienced in someone very recently.

     

    Ok, maybe using the word "never" was a bad word to say. However, patients with schizophrenia however are not in touch with reality hence why SOME of them can not live in the community effectively.

     

    Yes, they can last longer than one week, but a person (not all of them however) that experiences a full blown manic episode will not eat nor drink for that period unless prompted simply because they just forget. And Im pretty sure you know the effects it has on the body if someone has not eaten or drank anything for 1 week.

     

    There is no "yep, manic episode. Thats gonna last 3 days". It varies from each person just like people who have schizophrenia. Each person will have different delusions or hallucinations.

    Schizophrenia

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    do the voices also really tell the people NOT to take their meds?

    how do physicians get their patients to take them then?

    i can't imagine all schizophrenic patients being sent to a psych ward.

     

    Not all voices tell them not to take their meds. You'd be surprised that in the clinical area, a lot of them dont even know what the med exactly does to them. Its because theyve been diagnosed with this condition for years and even decades and it just becomes routine to them. If patienrs refuse, and are in a psych ward they get a z track injection in the ass.

     

    thats an interesting comment about the weed Calig. I read somewhere that schizophrenics naturally have higher levels of dopamine. Same with Tourette's and ADHD. Marijuana is known to boost levels of dopamine, so it makes sense.

     

    Thats true. Also i think 98% of a healthy population can smoke weed without expressing psychotic features. The other 2% will smoke weed, and present with psychotic features but have never actually been diagnosed with schzophrenia in their life.

     

    my aunt was schizophrenic and from what i understand, the medicine they give schizophrenics tends to make it worse, so they don't want to take them .

     

    It surpressed the voices and hallucinations. However, a major side effect of psychotic drugs is sedation which is why a lot of them feel as it makes them worse. Just like the meds for depression. The side effects of this, would actually make a normal healthy person depressed.

     

    It's always fun to read these threads and see other people's ideas of what mental illness is. Symbols- there's no Paranoid Schizophrenia w/ psychotic features, if you have schizophrenia then you already have some form of psychosis present.

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    What do you mean theres no paranoid schizophrenia with psychotic features? Having a psychotic feature means you have a feature that is not in touch with reality hence why someone with psychosis can present with hallucinations or delusions regarding themselves. They can have psychotic features with paranoia. For example, a person with paranoid schizophrenia will think their neighbour is spying on them (hallucination). The person will then have a delusion that he/she is a significant person or someone with great importance. The person will then be paranoid that the neighbour will kill them or harm them and eventually be paranoid about a lot of people in his/her life. T

     

     

    ^ Yeah, I see that happen a lot. Big difference between the 2 for a doc to not get it right and probably a bit unnerving for the person hearing it.

     

    Interesting you say that, because sometimes its actually hard to distinguish the two and sometimes its easy. The thing is, with schizophrenia the person is not intouch with reality at all. But with someone who has bi polar disease they are. And only present with psychotic features when they are going through a manic episode or a "high" which can last about a week. Someone with schizophrenia however will never be intouch with reality unless they take their meds.

     

    Also, someone who may have bi polar, could actually be mistaken with someone who has depression as if they have their manic episodes, they CAN express depression like symptoms. The way to distinguish the differences between all mental illness is to take a look at their history, past and present symptoms, chemical imbalances in the brain and also an EEG which pretty much looks at brain activity.

    The Great Photography Superthread

    in Art & Design

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    Re: Great Pictures~

     

    Yea, the cruise ship looks like some filthy shit to take a vacation on.

    I'm not sure if those tug boats are XL but that don't look much bigger than most cruise ships they make now.

     

    funny enough, that cruize ships construction was just completed less than a month ago and as we speak its on its way to california from finland. that being said, for a ship being designed and constructed around this day and age, i would of expected it to look 10000x better than it already does.

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