Essay on Schizophrenia Disease
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Running head: SCHIZOPHRENIA AND THE EFFECTS OF THE SAMESCHIZOPHRENIA AND THE EFFECTS OF THE SAMEName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1SCHIZOPHRENIA AND THE EFFECTS OF THE SAMEThe essay consists of one of the major disease, which is schizophrenia. Whilediscussing about the disease it is worth mentioning that it is one of the primary mental illness.In explaining the term the example of an eminent Australian songwriter and singer, Jeremywho was the victim of the disease has been taken into account. He was the band member ofone of the leading and popular band named Sunnyboy. The essay further concentrates on thedifference between the clinical treatment and a good environment at home that makes apatient healthy and a rapid recovery. Jeremy`s Oxley`s wife Mary was a supportive wife andit is because of her that he recovered successfully and in a fast manner. The essay concludeswith the suggestion of the treatment that the clinics and the doctors must offer to the mentallyill patients. Every patient behaves differently and the clinical faculty must understand everypatients needs and should treat them accordingly. This essay is mainly concerned about the experiences of Jeremy while he was goingwas suffering from a serious mental illness, later it was detected as schizophrenia. InitiallyJeremy had some symptoms of the disease (Angermeyer, Matschinger, & Schomerus, 2013).The symptoms were as he used to have some audible hallucination followed by identity loss.Initially he did not believe that he suffered from any mental disorder. His brother Peterdetected the disease in him but he refused to accept any kind of mental illness. It caused adistance between him and his brother, which resulted in an end up of their good relation. Hiswife Janet throughout supported him. He confessed to his wife that he was mad but his wifedenied to accept this and rather replied him that it was not a bad thing to be sick. Shesupported him and assured that she never made a wrong choice in her life. She supported himduring his treatment. Jeremy had to undergo a treatment of two years, his family supportedhim, and he received a healthy environment in his family (Australian, 2017). Both Jeremyand Mary faced a lot of struggle as they were about to marry each other. Mary showed a greatamount of maturity on her part and with an optimistic nature took care of Mary. The
2SCHIZOPHRENIA AND THE EFFECTS OF THE SAMEenvironment she created in the house helped Jeremy to get well soon. For any mental healthpatient it is extremely important to have a good environment in house. Jeremy received that.Finally, with a religious medication for thirty years and a psychological treatment at hishouse he was able to cure him and finally was back again as a rock star (Canu, Agosta &Filippi, 2015).Schizophrenia is a mental illness disease. It is a mental disorder and it disables aperson`s ability to think. It is said that a person is having split personality while sufferingfrom schizophrenia but it is not that in all the cases. It is sometimes different as well. Thevictims suffer from a year long symptoms of distress and disability in this disease. In spite ofall these, there is a big chance for the victims to survive. Now there are huge chances ofrecovery from this disease. There are advanced medication provided for this disease now. Insome cases, the victims improve gradually in a shorter period. In most cases, it takes a hugeamount of time for the patient to recover (Dalén, 2015). However, there are many symptomsof this disease, which is actually called psychosis. This includes confused thinking in whichthe everyday thought of a person is confused. A patient of schizophrenia experiencesconfused state of mind. Another symptom is delusion, in which the patient suffers fromparanoia. The patient undergoes certain false belief, which is not experienced by otherpersons of the same cultural background. Hallucination is another major symptom of thisdisease. In this, a person is able to see, hear and feel things, which does not exist. Only thepatients suffering from this disease and nobody else experience such conditions (Hasan et al.,2012).There are major six principles of schizophrenia. Firstly, it is the uniqueness of theindividual. This includes that every individual is unique and the patients should be treated ina special manner. They should be medicated not for the sake of medicating but also should betreated in manner that they remain as a valuable citizen of the country. This includes a social
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