I am often asked some questions in outpatient clinics or psychological counseling, and I cry and laugh after listening to them.
Questions such as: Doctor, I can't sleep for three days, will I get schizophrenia?
Another example: Doctor, if my depression is a little more severe, it will become schizophrenia, right?
Another example: doctors, schizophrenia, is it to become another person?
Since everyone is interested in this kind of problem, let's talk briefly today: What is schizophrenia? What exactly is the "thing" of schizophrenia that splits?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > before answering this question, we must first understand the two main points of knowledge of the disease. </h1>
First, schizophrenia is a mental disorder whose pathogenesis is still unknown. Yes, you read that right, and so far, people haven't figured out how it happened.
Second, its lifetime prevalence is about 1%, mainly manifested as cognitive, emotional and emotional, willful and behavioral abnormalities.
Among them, cognitive abnormalities include illusions, hallucinations, thinking logic disorders, delusions (such as being killed, being followed, being liked by a certain celebrity, being a child of a certain celebrity, etc.);
Emotions and emotional disorders can be manifested as flat expressions, emotional indifference, indifference to things to people, and serious expressions as emotional perversion (feeling sad about things that ordinary people are happy about, or on the contrary, laughing at sad things);
Abnormal will and behavior can manifest as decreased will, not bathing, withdrawing, not having contact and interaction with outsiders, and being out of touch with society.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > answer comes, schizophrenic people, what "thing" splits? </h1>
Human cognition, emotion, and will behavior are a whole that is unified, coordinated, and consistent with the objective world. For example, you get a message that you have a full score in the college entrance examination math test, which is cognition, and then there will be emotional emotions of excitement, excitement, and happiness, and then you will tell your parents and friends. (Of course, there are also people who want to enjoy this pleasant moment quietly.) ）
However, as for the person with schizophrenia, he may get this good news at the same time, but also hear other people's comments "he cheats", he is not happy, but sad or even angry, and the behavior will be expressed as impulsiveness, withdrawal, etc.
Therefore, the schizophrenic patient, the "thing" of division, is the "psychological whole" - human knowledge-feeling-intention, this "psychological whole" that is consistent with and unified and coordinated with the objective world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > the correct treatment</h1>
Antipsychotic therapy is the most mainstream and effective treatment method in contemporary times, and psychotherapy has no effect on the onset of schizophrenia, but can be used as an auxiliary intervention during the rehabilitation period. The course of schizophrenia is characterized by easy recurrence, and long-term medication is recommended. Modern psychiatry has been able to cope with this disease better.