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Schizophrenia is a mental disease devastator in the effects
and chronicle in the duration, this is probably most painful and more
invalidating serious mental diseases. The first signs of schizophrenia generally
appear during adolescence or at young
adult.

The effects of the disease (symptoms) are often
incomprehensible, diverting, even shocking, for the family and circle. The
people reached of schizophrenia present difficulties in the process of the
thought and in the perception, which generates are delirious, of the disordered
thoughts, the hallucinations, the speeches and the strange behaviors. These
symptoms make that the people touched by the disease see themselves limited in
their communication with others, often withdrawing world which surrounds them.

Contrary to the popular belief, the people reached of
schizophrenia aren’t ” personalities duplicated” nor dangerous for the
others; they are, in fact, much more often victims of violence and feel regularly insulated, stigmatized, being able
to be reticent or unable to speak about their disease. The majority of the
people reached of schizophrenia suffer throughout their life, where concept of
chronicity, thus missing by the professional and relational occasions.

In spite of appearance of new treatments, which are
associated with occurrence of less
unpleasant effects, bringing to an improvement of quality of life, only a patient
on five can say that he will not undergo any more the effects of the disease.
In addition, these advances didn’t make possible the reduction of the suicide
rate, which remains a person on ten.

With schizophrenia, this isn’t only the person who is
touched but also her entourage. The family and the friends can be deeply
affected by the feeling impotence and incomprehension
within sight of the symptoms of the disease; the suffering person then becomes
a burden in the support and the assumption of responsibility. To face the
symptoms of schizophrenia is thus particularly difficult for the family
members, who want to find the active person and lives before the disease.
Moreover, entourage can make feel guilty, with the belief which the disease
comes a bad education, or to make feel
guilty the sick person in showing bad or a weak will, which isn’t the case.

Schizophrenia is a complex disease, due to various factors
acting simultaneously, which seem to be the result; genetic or biological influences
(physiology of the brain, consumption of products,…), accidents which have occurred
during the pregnancy or childbirth, effects of social insulation and/or of the
stress. There exists also other factors which can play a part in the release of
schizophrenia, but none can be indicated as being the single cause; one thinks
than each one rather made increase the risk for a person to develop the
disease… risk which is identical among the men and women, with, however, the
difference which the men fall sick younger (between 16 and 25 years) while the
women develop the symptoms with a more advanced age (between 25 and 30 years).

Schizophrenia touches approximately 1 to 2% of the people
during their life and is present in the whole world, with a similar incidence a
country with other.

Today, the depression is the mental disorder of mood very widespread in the world: it constitutes 20% of the consultations in general medicine. The depression isn’t however a state of heart, but a pathology being able to lead to frightening crises.

How to recognize it?

The depression is a pathology characterized by a significant modification of mood in the direction of sadness, the suffering and the psychomotor deceleration, leading to a feeling of general impotence, with morbid and suicidal ideas. The principal signs to recognize it are: a lack of generalized interest, a hard thought, a difficult concentration including for the automatisms of the daily life (to wash themselves, get dressed, eat…), of the rises of anguish which can be reflected on the sleep and a feeling of devalorization or excessive culpability, even delirious. In certain cases, the depression can take forms ” masked ” , where sadness and the mental health disorders are absent or very discrete, but where some turbid somatic take the top, like the migraines, back painses, abdominal…

How to leave itself there?

The depression is generally looked after while exploiting two complementary registers: drugs and psychotherapy. The antidepressants are most usually employed, among which Prozac is prescribed the most in city medicine. They are often associated with the anxiolytiques ones, in spite of the risks of dependence. In addition, several types of psychotherapy can make it possible to become aware of the psychic mechanisms concerned which are at the origin of the mental suffering.

Which are the symptoms of the depression?

The people in suffering often pronounce these words:

> I don’t have any more a force.
> I don’t have any more energy.
> I don’t manage any more to leave my bed.
> I support anything any more, nor nobody.
> I go from failure in failure.
> I don’t have any more taste with nothing.
> I card-index myself of all.
> I feel guilty.
> I will never go better.
> I would like so much more to awake me.
> I cannot about it any more.
> I want to be alone.
> I do not have any more any center of interest.
> I do not memorize anything any more.
> I am not able any more to read and look at a film.