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Myths and realities associated with schizophrenia.

Myths and Realities

Myth: People with schizophrenia are usually violent and the prison is where they should be.

Reality: People are not usually violent, being more often victims than perpetrators of violence and abuse. They should not be in jail because they could worsen if they are being punished unfairly, even more so than normal people.

Myth: Schizophrenia sufferers never recover.

Fact: Schizophrenia has no majority and inevitably unfavorable outcome, many patients can benefit extensively with the treatments available today. Arbitrarily accept as true that schizophrenia is an incurable disease always leads, unfortunately, despair, hopelessness, rejection and abandonment.

Myth: people with schizophrenia are unable to decide their own treatment.

Reality: In many circumstances, planifición can participate in your treatment, thus facilitating a better cumplmiento and results in the long term.

Myth: Schizophrenia is a punishment from God, a curse or demonic possession is the result of a lack of faith.

Fact: In IE world today many people think that this is true, seeking solutions and assistance to "healers", "healing" or exorcists, may delay the commencement or continuation of medical treatment. Although in many cases both forms coexist with this disease, to go without psychosocial rehabilitation, appropriate medication and psychotherapy.

Myth: The cause of schizophrenia lies in a particular way that some parents have to raise, nurture and educate children.

Fact: For much of the last century claimed that a certain type of parenting was the cause of schizophrenia in their children. It was thought that if relations were cold and distant and communication styles were confusing and contradictory were more likely to get sick. To date no studies have been able to demonstrate convincingly that relationship.

Myth: Schizophrenia is contagious.

Fact: Schizophrenia is not contagious. However, this view is widespread in the world, causing people to avoid contact with them and reduce the possibilities to live, work and study as any other person in the community. The terror of society extends to family members, mental health professionals and healthcare institutions themselves.

Myth: Schizophrenia is a "dual personality."

Fact: Neither "Double Personality" and "Multiple personality" are terms that identify what is really Schizophrenia. Also popular is wrong to use the word "schizophrenic" in the media when applied to current events or individuals supposedly healthy, with some contradictory or strange feature, usually made for the purpose of public disqualification.

Myth: People with schizophrenia are mentally retarded.

Reality: They're actually very different because not only are initiated different ages (Schizophrenia was late adolescence to early adulthood and mental retardation since birth or early life), but virtually all of its manifestations are different.

Myth: People with schizophrenia should stay Instant.

Fact: Numerous studies have shown that both innovative options for hospitalization, as well as new medicines and holistic care programs in the community, generating highly effective results, enabling the life out of psychiatric hospitals of many patients once considered incurable chronic.