Successful Case
Doubt again and again to get schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is the most common mental disease, which is thought to be the breaking of basic thinking and cognition. The causing of the disease has not been found yet, it more occurs on the youth and adults, from 16 to 40-year-old, without any organic changes. The patient who gets schizophrenia often has fantasy and vagary, while the lack of social function is the main symptom of schizophrenia.
On May 3, 2011, Zhang Yanchi Director of the Department of Mental Behavior received such a patient:
Seeing A Ping, no one would think him as a patient who got schizophrenia more than 7 years ago. He was smart and clean, he answered doctor’s questions steadily and correctly. But with the deepening of their talking, A Ping showed abnormally, he always thought someone would hurt him, because during the process of falling love with his ex-girlfriend in 2003, something made him insist that his sexual function had problems, even he was afraid to get close to his girlfriend, worrying about his sexual ability; he admitted he had been in hospital for many times and he could not remember the situations clearly. But he actually doubted someone around him wanted to pursuit his girlfriend, even doubted they obstructed him on purpose to stop his happiness.
In 2003, he got the disease for the reason that his girlfriend didn’t want to have sex with him, he often showed suspiciously and doubted his girlfriend was not loyal to him. He thought his problems of sexual function caused by her, even he thought his family prevented his contact with her, he often lost his temper to his family, even hit his family, broke something in his home and he could not fall asleep at night. He sought for treatment in many mental hospitals, but he got the disease again many times after recovering from hospital. With the introduction of his friends, his family who had been tormented by him for many years took him to GuangDong 999 brain hospital.
After checking, A Ping was diagnosed as schizophrenia (paranoid). With the guidance of doctors and nurses, A Ping cooperated with the treatment and nursing in the sickroom, after a month’s medical treatment and recovery training, he said he felt better and full of confidence; he also had good mood and had much hope to the future; he thought his sexual function had recovered, he could eat normally and sleep well. On June 1, he went home happily after doctor’s checking.
【expert】
Paranoid schizophrenia is the most common type of schizophrenia. At first the disease shows sensibility and doubt, then it develops into vagary slowly with the tendency of expanse, and the content of the vagary gets rid of reality gradually, sometimes it has illusion and comprehensive obstacle of esthesia. The emotion and action are usually controlled by illusion and vagary, showing doubt and fear, even hurting himself and others. The process of the disease is slower than other diseases, it is not obvious that the spirit fades and they can not recover by themselves, but it has good effect on treatment.
Zhang Yanchi Director of the Department of Mental Behavior says: No matter what the disease is, the prevention after recovery is very important to patient, so is schizophrenia, therefore, the patient and his family should adjust the family relationship in time, improve the communication among families and the skill of dealing with the patient to prevent the recurrence.