The huge amount of relevant studies, including those mentioned above, has directed the field of psychotic disorder more thorough and precise. Nevertheless, researchers are still at the edge of really understanding the pathophysiology and mechanism of schizophrenia, which is actually the first critical step towards creating a better disease model. Based on what researchers have known from the limited individual files, there is no consistent pattern of this disease predicting the outcome compared to other mental disorders, leading to an elusive mechanism of illness with less space to improve. Both crucial sides of the treatment, pharmacological medication and social support, have inevitably critics and problems accompanied with positive results.
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It is not deniable that with the continually development of psychiatry and increased public knowledge about mental diseases, the boundary between being disorder and no-disorder has been hard to differentiate. People may have a tendency to exaggerate the severity of mental problems, such as anxiety, shyness, and sadness. However, the very basic public knowledge tells people that mental disorders are severe as abnormality, and this kind of basic knowledge may cause general fear towards people with mental disorders, and perhaps social stigma by having the incomplete understanding. The stigma of psychotic disease is generally endorsed by the public, than produces different attitudes. According to the study of (Corrigan et al., 2001), both of the authoritarian and benevolence attitudes, one has coercive handling over people with mental illness and one is caring too much, can elicit social distance and negative influence on schizophrenia patients. The optimal way, based on their argument, is to develop a two-person variable containing both the one’s familiarity of mental illness and whether one belongs to a minority group which experience stigma more harshly. The implication here is that in order to help people with schizophrenia overcome the disease, at least the public need to have one of the properties. However, in reality, the general public rarely own either property, and it takes time, or even a long period of time, for clinicians or educators to change the current social state. Even for those families with a member afflicted with mental illness, they feel the burden and it is also harsh and difficult for them to cope the situation and stress (Kuipers 1993; Winefield & Harvey 1993). On the other hand, these findings actually suggested the importance and necessity to increase public knowledge of general mental
It is not deniable that with the continually development of psychiatry and increased public knowledge about mental diseases, the boundary between being disorder and no-disorder has been hard to differentiate. People may have a tendency to exaggerate the severity of mental problems, such as anxiety, shyness, and sadness. However, the very basic public knowledge tells people that mental disorders are severe as abnormality, and this kind of basic knowledge may cause general fear towards people with mental disorders, and perhaps social stigma by having the incomplete understanding. The stigma of psychotic disease is generally endorsed by the public, than produces different attitudes. According to the study of (Corrigan et al., 2001), both of the authoritarian and benevolence attitudes, one has coercive handling over people with mental illness and one is caring too much, can elicit social distance and negative influence on schizophrenia patients. The optimal way, based on their argument, is to develop a two-person variable containing both the one’s familiarity of mental illness and whether one belongs to a minority group which experience stigma more harshly. The implication here is that in order to help people with schizophrenia overcome the disease, at least the public need to have one of the properties. However, in reality, the general public rarely own either property, and it takes time, or even a long period of time, for clinicians or educators to change the current social state. Even for those families with a member afflicted with mental illness, they feel the burden and it is also harsh and difficult for them to cope the situation and stress (Kuipers 1993; Winefield & Harvey 1993). On the other hand, these findings actually suggested the importance and necessity to increase public knowledge of general mental