4SharesThis is the fifth and last part of a series on psychosis. Read the first, second, third and fourth parts. So is the treatment of psychosis and schizophrenia a lost cause? Can we not offer any hope to people suffering from these illnesses or their families of living a normal life? Not at all. While […]
9SharesAli Madeeh Hashmi writes about the treatment of schizophrenia, what medicines are effective, the stages at which there is no treatment, and the side effects of these medicines. Treatment of Schizophrenia The treatment of schizophrenia, like most mental illnesses, falls along two lines into what we might call ‘medical’ treatment and ‘psychological’ treatment or alternatively, […]
100SharesWhat we call ‘Schizophrenia’, implying a unitary illness is in fact, a syndrome that may include many different types of illnesses with common presenting symptoms, Ali Madeeh explains. Schizophrenia In History Today, of all the illnesses that I treat, nothing depresses me more than schizophrenia. My despondency about the outcome of this dreaded disease is […]