this is for health and wellness

1. What to know/do about it.
What does it do?
How can it be treated/or controlled
How to tell the difference between real and
unreal experiences
Logical thinking
Emotional responses.

2. Outline of schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects
about 1.1 percent of the US population, age 18
and older in a year. IT makes it difficult to do
many of the every day things that most of us do.
It also makes it hard to think logically. There are
some tests that can be done to determine if
someone actually has schizophrenia. There will
be some expectations but this disorder is difficult
to predict. There may also be complications like,
developing a problem with alcohol and drugs,
physical illness, and suicide.

3. Prevention
• There is no way to prevent Schizophrenia. The
symptoms can be prevented with medications.
Take the medications exactly as your doctor
told you to do so. Symptoms will return if you
stop taking your medications.

4. Risk Factors
• Certain environmental events can trigger
schizophrenia in anyone who is genetically at
risk for it. A person is more likely to develop
schizophrenia if they have a family member
with the disease. It affects both men and
women. It usually begins in the teen years or
young adult hood, but can also begin later in
life. Schizophrenia in children after age 5 is
very rare and can be hard to tell apart from
autism.

5. Role on immune system
• Schizophrenia is linked with irritable or tense
feelings
• Difficulty sleeping which runs the immune
system down.
• Difficulty concentrating
• Problems with thinking, emotions, and
behavior development

6. Web resources
• There are places you can go to get help when dealing with
schizophrenia.
– Your family doctor
– Religious leaders
– Health maintenance organizations
– Community mental health centers
– Out patient clinic
– Hospital psychiatry departments
– University or medical school affiliated programs
– State hospitals
– Social service agencies
– Private clinics
– Employee assistance programs
– Local medical and/or psychiatric societies

7. Diagnosis and treatment
• It’s important to diagnose and treat
schizophrenia as early as possible because
finding the right medications can help
prevent;
– Acute psychotic symptoms
– Reduce likeliness of relapse
– Ensure appropriate treatment

8. Complementary treatments
• Personal therapy
• Glycine
• Electro-convulsive therapy
• Healthy diet
• EPA-Omega 3 fish oils

9. Conclusion
• Schizophrenia is a serious illness that affects a
wide number of people. There are so many
places that you can go to, to get help,
treatment, medications, and healthy diet
plans for dealing with schizophrenia. There are
also a lot that needs to be done in order to
know for sure if someone actually has
schizophrenia like going to a doctor. Sadly,
there is no way to prevent getting this
disorder.

10. References
• Leuchts S, Corues C, Arbter D, Engel RR, Lic, Davis JM; Second-
generation versus first-generation antipsychotic drugs for
schizophrenia: a meta-analysis, Lancet.2009; 373:31-41. Epub
2008 Dec 6
• Freudenreich O, Weiss AP, Goff DC, Psychosis and
schizophrenia. In: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Faua M Biederman
J, Rauch SL, eds. Massachusetts General Hospital
Comprehensive Clinical psychiatry. 152 ed Philadelphia, PA:
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