Schizophrenia: Disease that Upsets Personality and Affective Life

According to the manual of I diagnose of the mental upheavals (DSM-IV) the schizophrenia is characterized to present/display at least two of the following characteristics: delirious ideas, hallucinations, language disorganized (derailment frequents or incoherence), catatónico behavior, and negative symptoms (affective leveling, apathy, alogia).

According to manual the single one it is required to speak of psychosis if the delirious ideas are strange, or it is a voice that continuously comments the thoughts or the behavior of the subject, or if two or more voices talk among them. In this sense a social and labor dysfunction is pronounced. Schizophrenia is not considered if the causal one is by the consumption of substances or an associated medical disease.

The Schizophrenia mainly affects the affective life, the thought, the conduct and the internal perception it is possible to emphasize that the manual excludes from the classification of schizophrenia the upheavals ezquizo affective and of the mood. The schizophrenia is subdivided according to the predominant sintomatologia at the moment of the evaluation:

Types of Schizophrenia

- Paranoide Type: delirious preoccupation by one or more ideas or frequent auditory hallucinations, and if there is no language disorganized, nor flattened affectivity.
- Type Disorganized: with language disorganized, behavior disorganized and flattened affectivity.
- Catatónico Type: motor immobility showed by catalepsy, or excessive motor activity, extreme negativism or mutes, or with stereotyped movements or to be adopted rare positions, or echolalia or ecopraxia.
- Indiferenciado Upheaval: when they are not fulfilled any of the three previous subdivisions, paranoide, disorganized or catatónico.
- Residual Type: when there is absence of delirious ideas, hallucinations, language disorganized and Catatónico behavior or disorganized, unless they are present in attenuated form.

As far as the schizophrenia the longitudinal course with residual symptoms is evaluated to intern episodic; or episodes without symptoms residual, or continuous, or in partial or total remission.

The treatment of the schizophrenia is based fundamentally on called drugs antipsicóticos, but used they are the Neuroleptics (Haloperidol, Largacil, Meleril, etc.) they are very effective in the treatment of the schizophrenia, which control the active symptoms, but have important indirect effect like tremors, rigidity, internal restlessness, sweat and even convulsions.

Also it produces no neurological undesirable effects like jaundice (yellowish coloration of the skin), high fever, aplásica anemia, skin hypersensitivity, hypotension, increase of weight and in extreme cases "malignant Neuroleptics syndrome" that can take to the death.

But it is necessary and simultaneously complementary that the patient receives a psycho-social treatment (psychological, occupational and social), is fundamental that the person lets hallucinate, to be delirious, but also it is that it recovers his habits of life, that the this throughout occupied day, who has her group of friends, that is to say, integration in the society, the normalization.

At the moment new forms of presentation exist that reduce to these indirect effects like the Clizamina or the Risperidona, thanks to this advance the patients do not leave the treatment so easily, because they do not undergo so many annoyances.

Antipsicóticos Medicines: The antipsicóticos medicines can be of aid to control the psicóticos symptoms (behavior delusory and hallucinations) or thinking of way disorganized. These medicines can also help to control the nervous muscular movements (tics) or verbal exabruscos like which they are observed in the Syndrome of Tourette.

They are used sometimes to treat the severe anxiety and can help to reduce the very aggressive behavior. Some examples of traditional antipsicóticos medicines include: "Chlorpromazine" ("Thorazine"), "Thioridazine" ("Mellaril"), "Fluphenazine ("Prolixin")," Trifluoperazine "("Stelazine")," Thiothixene "("Navane") and" Haloperidol "("Haldol").

The new antipsicóticos medicines (also known as atypical or novel) include: "Clozapine" ("Clozaril"), "Risperidone" ("Risperdal"), "Quetiapine" ("Seroquel"), "Olanzapine" ("Zyprexa") and "Ziprasidone" ("Zeldox").

The Schizophrenia is a disease that mainly affects the affective life, the thought, the conduct and the internal perception, the treatment that is due to apply to the patient is using pharmacologic products like the antipsicóticos, in addition complementarily is due to give a psycho-social treatment him. Also one requests support and understanding of the relatives for the quick recovery of the patient.

Autor: Hidrocodone Para Dolores.

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