Paranoid schizophrenia is one type of schizophrenia in which the sufferer has the belief that others will do evil to him. Patients also experience hallucinatory sounds in which they hear voices that are not real.
However, in schizophrenia this type of intellectual thinking ability is still quite normal. Thus, with prompt and appropriate treatment and support from the family, usually the patient has a chance of recovery.
Mentioned from a study that about 20 percent of paranoid schizophrenic patients have a good cure rate and have the possibility to have a normal and productive life. Treatment given to paranoid type schizophrenia in the form of antipsychotics (haloperidone, chlorpromazine, risperidone, etc.), antidepressants, anti-anxiety, and mood stabilizer.
In addition to the provision of drugs by psychiatric specialists, patients are also given psychosocial therapy such as social therapy, cognitive and behavioral therapy, and others. Disease schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness / old, so require regular and continuous handling by the experts.
Instead, always control regularly to a psychiatric specialist if any family member suffers from schizophrenia.
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