Menstrual psychosis

are in place to help people live a normal life. From antipsychotic medicine to practical mechanisms such as therapy, meditating, spending time with friends and family, and support groups; they are all strategies that are proven to help deal with psychosis. Every day hobbies such as cooking, watching movies, exercising, puzzle-making, and more can help just as much to distract someone from thinking about details of their illness. Just because someone has…

Prospective Memory in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Medication Management Skills, Neurocognition, and Symptoms in Individuals With Schizophrenia The purpose of this paper is to examine the methods and results from the experiment of The Relationship to Medication Management Skills, Neurocognition, and Symptoms in Individuals With Schizophrenia. In this experiment, a standardized test is given to fourty-one individuals who suffer from schizophrenia and twenty-five healthy adults.…

Introduction Medication adherence presents an enormous challenge in the treatment of mental health diseases. Total adherence to medication regimen specifically in schizophrenic patients presents even more challenges as the disease negatively impacts a patient’s quality of life and places a huge burden on family members with schizophrenia. Reviewing the effects of partial medication adherence and medication non-compliance is especially important in schizophrenic patients as this…

Pharmacologic strategies for the treatment of agitation and aggression include tranquilizing medications, for short term management, and for longer term management antipsychotics. Antipsychotics have now become so widely utilized for the management of agitation and behavioral symptoms that more than 70% of antipsychotic prescriptions are for off label purposes (Glick et al 2001). Some studies have demonstrated that almost a third of nursing home resident are on antipsychotics (Chen, 2010) .…

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 1. People unfamiliar with the study of abnormal behavior sometimes confuse "multiple personality" (Dissociative Identity Disorder) with schizophrenia. How would you explain the difference? Make sure to support your conclusions with DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. Dissociative Identity Disorder and schizophrenia are often confused, and many believe that they are the same. They are actually two completely different disorders. Schizophrenia is a disorder in…

In this article their main focus was over the indirect self-destructiveness in patients with schizophrenia. They wanted to investigate a way to predict the indirect self-destructiveness as it has never been done with schizophrenia patients. Indirect self- destructiveness is something that healthy individuals and mentally ills have in common. The number of patients that for this study was 200 hundred paranoid schizophrenia patients. They were between the ages 27 to 58 years old. To measure…

Imagine hearing voices that nobody else could hear and believing that people could read your mind. That is what schizophrenia does to yo Imagine hearing voices that nobody else could hear and believing that people could read your mind. That is what schizophrenia does to you. Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Over 2.2 million people suffer from schizophrenia in the United States. ("Schizophrenia Facts and Statistics.”) Developing…

Etiology. The etiology of schizophrenia is unknown. In most cases are identified risk factors, factors that increase the risk but not with certainty predict a disease. The prevailing scientific view today is that the psychoses, caused by a combination of biological and environmental factors. The etiology of schizophrenia has occupied both biological approaches and the psychological. Despite sustained effort, the mechanism of schizophrenia has remained elusive (Christopoulou, 2008). Biological…

there is a difference in size of cerebral ventricles among patients with schizophrenia; however, a theory was developed, which suggested schizophrenia could be a consequence of the brain’s high metabolism when energy problems arise; characterized by psychosis and cognitive impairments (1,2). Moreover, Scientists recently developed a way to test this theory, where it focuses on medicine and evolutionary genetics that compare gene expression and the concentration of metabolites in the brains of…

Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness affecting many people in the United States alone. This mental illness is one which makes everyday life incredibly difficult for the suffering patient and his or her family, especially when it is left untreated. Unfortunately, there are a great number of cases of schizophrenia which go unreported and under-diagnosed due to the stigma attached to this particular condition. When this happens, the patient is likely to suffer a poor quality of life for an…