{"id":733,"date":"2021-09-15T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2021-10-13T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T19:38:26","slug":"how-to-recognize-schizophrenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/how-to-recognize-schizophrenia\/","title":{"rendered":"How to recognize schizophrenia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Schizophrenia is&nbsp;multifaceted, has many symptoms, and the&nbsp;question of&nbsp;how to recognize schizophrenia has&nbsp;been one of the&nbsp;leading&nbsp;questions&nbsp;in the&nbsp;field of psychiatry&nbsp;for many decades&nbsp;.&nbsp;There are known cases of overdiagnosis, as well as, in fact, the&nbsp;opposite phenomenon, when the correct diagnosis is made with a&nbsp;delay.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, at the&nbsp;moment, certain&nbsp;diagnostic criteria&nbsp;have been developed&nbsp;, which are guided by specialists.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This question is much more important for those whose relatives are at&nbsp;risk.&nbsp;After all, it is the timely appeal to&nbsp;a psychiatrist&nbsp;and&nbsp;receiving the correct&nbsp;treatment that&nbsp;can help cope with a&nbsp;painful condition and&nbsp;prevent its progression.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, here we&nbsp;will try to consider those&nbsp;factors that can help in&nbsp;how to recognize schizophrenia at the&nbsp;very beginning of the disease.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diagnosis of schizophrenia (according to ICD-10) is based on the&nbsp;allocation of three symptomatic groups:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Productive symptoms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Hallucinations:&nbsp;there is a certain image&nbsp;in the&nbsp;human mind (most often&nbsp;&#8211; a voice \/ voices), which are not in&nbsp;reality.&nbsp;The patient can listen to&nbsp;something, look for a sound source, talk with an&nbsp;invisible interlocutor.&nbsp;Voices can discuss a person&#8217;s actions, comment on his actions, give some commands.&nbsp;These signs are found in about&nbsp;half of people with schizophrenia.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Delusions of the most varied content: delusions of persecution, attitudes, influences.&nbsp;About&nbsp;80% of patients with schizophrenia&nbsp;show this symptom throughout the course of the disease.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Disorganization of speech and&nbsp;thinking: thoughts can get confused or cut off, a person falls silent in&nbsp;mid-sentence and&nbsp;then does not&nbsp;remember why he&nbsp;began to say this&nbsp;or that phrase.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>The world may seem unreal, sounds and colors are perceived distorted (derealization).<\/li><li>The boundaries between the surrounding world and the&nbsp;sense of &#8220;I&#8221; (depersonalization) are being&nbsp;erased&nbsp;.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Negative symptoms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>cognitive impairments&nbsp;<\/em>: disorders of attention, memory, thinking, speech;<\/li><li>poverty of facial expressions and&nbsp;expressionless voice;&nbsp;<\/li><li>passivity (there is no spontaneity, willingness to make decisions);<\/li><li>autism: a person has&nbsp;difficulty making&nbsp;contact, the circle of communication and&nbsp;interests is&nbsp;narrowed&nbsp;;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>volitional regulation is disturbed: lack of initiative, apathy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Mood disorders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>depression with&nbsp;a tendency to&nbsp;self-accusation and&nbsp;suicidal intent can often occur in the early stages of schizophrenia (k&nbsp;Unfortunately, 40% of patients to attempt&nbsp;suicide&nbsp;in the&nbsp;course of life);&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since&nbsp;the release&nbsp;<strong>psychomotor symptoms,&nbsp;<\/strong>so-called catatonia: the rejection of&nbsp;food, silence, until the&nbsp;complete lack of speech, muscle tension, until the&nbsp;total immobility, &#8220;frozen&#8221; look.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>what to pay attention in&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>the first place?<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the&nbsp;beginning of the development of the disease&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>memory deteriorates,<\/li><li>concentration of attention decreases,<\/li><li>loss of interest in&nbsp;work, communication with&nbsp;others,&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>a person strives for&nbsp;loneliness,&nbsp;<\/li><li>ceases to comply with hygiene rules and&nbsp;to monitor&nbsp;their appearance,&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>lack of initiative appears,<\/li><li>the person becomes irritable, apathetic,<\/li><li>unusual headaches appear<\/li><li>speech and&nbsp;motor skills&nbsp;begin to suffer&nbsp;,&nbsp;<\/li><li>&#8220;magical thinking&#8221; appears.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Recognition of schizophrenia, especially at the&nbsp;very beginning, is difficult because the sick person himself does not&nbsp;consider himself as such.&nbsp;But&nbsp;it is very important to&nbsp;see a doctor on time.&nbsp;High-quality diagnosis of schizophrenia and&nbsp;timely prescribed treatment and&nbsp;rehabilitation make a person&#8217;s life full.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schizophrenia is&nbsp;multifaceted, has many symptoms, and the&nbsp;question of&nbsp;how to recognize schizophrenia has&nbsp;been one of the&nbsp;leading&nbsp;questions&nbsp;in the&nbsp;field of psychiatry&nbsp;for many decades&nbsp;.&nbsp;There are known cases of overdiagnosis, as well as, in fact, the&nbsp;opposite phenomenon, when the correct diagnosis is made with a&nbsp;delay.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; However, at the&nbsp;moment, certain&nbsp;diagnostic criteria&nbsp;have been developed&nbsp;, which are guided<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}