Schizophrenia is considered one of the most serious and dangerous mental illnesses known to psychiatry. The main task of doctors becomes the control of such difficult patients and their treatment. Despite the fact that patients cannot control themselves, curb their minds, yet they often become dangerous to society. This applies to those units that do not seek help and decide not to be treated by a professional.
The reason for this is often material problems, because modern medicine is very expensive. If we add to this the need to have insurance, which is required in many developed countries, then the situation becomes global. About 50-60% of patients with schizophrenia are not seen by a doctor, but try to deal with their illness at home. And of course, in connection with this, they start not only having problems, but also thoughts about suicide, which more than once ended in practice in the death of the patient.
What about statistics?
To understand what the situation is in the world with the category of people falling under the concept of schizophrenic, it is worth considering the following data:
- To date, more than 21 million people suffering from schizophrenia of various degrees of complexity have been recorded in the world.
- In the vast majority of these people, hallucinations were the first sign of illness. They saw people, otherworldly and mythical creatures that no one else saw. Also, many patients have auditory hallucinations, when someone’s voice whispered different things to them in their head. Often this voice ordered to hurt others.
- According to statistics, people die from schizophrenia 3-4 times more often than from ordinary diseases that mentally healthy people suffer from.
- The disease can affect people of all ages. Most of all, age categories from 15 to 30 years are predisposed to it, less often — people of advanced age.
- Today, clinics are ready to offer complex treatment and modern effective drugs to schizophrenics, with the help of which it is possible to achieve stable remission. It helps 3-6 patients out of ten.
Immediately after hallucinations, most patients developed other symptoms, the first of which were misperceptions of what was happening, impaired thinking, behavioral deviations, and delusional ideas.
Predictions for schizophrenia
If we take the last 40 years, then the conditions for the treatment of schizophrenics have become much better, and the treatment is many times more effective. Previously, it was extremely difficult to achieve remission in such difficult patients. Today it happens more and more often.
Although the disease cannot be completely cured, it can be stopped in the early stages of development. This is facilitated by innovative medicines. The main rule: the patient himself must be willing to take them and do it constantly. If even relatives and friends support the patient, then the chances of recovery become twice as large. But, as medical practice shows, few relatives want to take responsibility and support a person who has begun to develop the disease. In connection with such circumstances, patients are increasingly thinking about suicide and how to do it in order to die as soon as possible.
True, there are positive statistics. More and more progress is being made by scientists in the course of research in the field of neurology, psychiatry and genetics on the disease, the search for drugs to suppress symptoms and the key cause of the pathology, which is still a mystery.