Paranoid Schizophrenia
What are the Symptoms?
- Key symptoms are delusions and auditory hallucinations.
- Most delusions include people trying to harm you and illusions of grandeur
- An auditory hallucination is hearing noises that are not real.
- Other symptoms that can arise as a result from delusions and auditory hallucinations are anxiety, anger, suicidal thoughts and actions, violence, and egocentrism
- Common delusions are government workers trying to kill you, or the belief that you’re in a relationship with a celebrity
- Delusions can cause violence if you believe you must be aggressive against those in your mind.
- Most auditory hallucinations are of voices, which are usually malicious against you and those around you
- These voices might insult you or tell you to harm your friends, family, or peers
- Often times, those with Paranoid Schizophrenia shout out and talk to the voices during these episodes.
Who gets Paranoid Schizophrenia and Why?
Although the exact cause of Paranoid Schizophrenia is unknown there are risk factors like:
-family history of Schizophrenia
-exposure to viruses before birth
-poor nutrients while in womb
-traumatic environmental factors
-old father when conceived
Although the exact cause of Paranoid Schizophrenia is unknown there are risk factors like:
-family history of Schizophrenia
-exposure to viruses before birth
-poor nutrients while in womb
-traumatic environmental factors
-old father when conceived
- signs and symptoms arise usually from late adolescence to mid 30s
Treatment Plans
- many patients seek help from a psychiatrist
- they endure psychotherapy
- electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- vocational skills workshops
- First generation antipsychotics stabilize brain chemicals
- Second generation antipsychotics quell hallucinations
- Often anti-depressants are taken to help deal with associated factors of the disorder
For more information on paranoid schizophrenia visit:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/paranoid-schizophrenia/basics/definition/con-20029040
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/paranoid-schizophrenia/basics/definition/con-20029040