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There is a holiday dedicated to such an illness as schizophrenia. It is Worldwide and is celebrated on May 24th. Its mission is large and significant: to help people realize what one of the most severe mental illnesses in the world is. Many are biased towards schizophrenics, considering them not as patients who need medical help, but as a threat to society, insane people, aggressors. The holiday was created to dispel these ridiculous judgments and to support people with mental disorders morally.
Naturally, they need support, because it is practically unrealistic to be cured and get rid of this disease forever. You can overcome the symptoms, but you must not forget that you were called a schizophrenic. Imagine how people look at you when they know the truth? For some, even such pressure is already the strongest pressure that you want to get rid of forever, but, alas, you can’t run away from the truth.
What you need to know about schizophrenia and what are the important features to consider?
This is one of those mental disorders that almost everyone knows about. It is often displayed in films. Only there everything looks different than it really is. There are several facts about the disease that will help you understand the extent of the problem in the world:
- The condition is categorized as «severe».
- More than 20 million people in the world suffer from this disease.
- Pathology is characterized by a violation of self-perception, emotional state, thinking, perception of the surrounding world, behavior.
- The most common symptoms are hallucinations, when a person sees and hears something that is not really there, and also crazy ideas.
- The disease greatly affects the ability to work. It can complicate learning and work activities.
- Patients with this diagnosis are often seen in the eyes of the threat, the dregs of society. Problems such as violation of the rights and discrimination of schizophrenics are common.
- This disease is curable. If you use special medicines regularly and without failures, you can achieve good results and stable remission.
Today, points are being increasingly created to receive patients with this mental disorder in order to provide them with support, assistance in finding work and housing.
The holiday helps to understand the causes and main symptoms of the disease
It is possible to understand that scientists have not been able to find the specific causes of the disorder. It is believed that it develops due to the interaction of the active gene with the surrounding negative factors. Most patients are not to blame for being faced with such a diagnosis. And most of them even in our time were subjected to terrible emotional tests, which led to the «sickness of the soul and mind.»
The main features included:
- nonsense — a person is sure that I am persecuting him, in a conspiracy, in his suspicions and so on. It is simply impossible to convince him;
- hallucinations — he sees people and creatures that are not there, hears their voices. All this looks realistic;
- inappropriate behavior — it can be cheerful, and after a moment very sad, sudden aggression and anger appear, muttering, strange aimless walking;
- speech disorders — speaks slurredly, thoughts are not connected, can talk very quickly about things that are incomprehensible to people around.
World Schizophrenic Day helps to understand that this group of patients also needs support and understanding, as well as the strong love of others and relatives, because they are the same patients as people with cancer, pneumonia and other pathological conditions.