Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disease which gets develop in the brain due to the medical imbalance. There are various symptoms which can be seen in patients suffering from Schizophrenia. The symptoms are characterized into positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms are characterized by hallucination etc. whereas the negative symptoms are characterized by things such as emotionless facial expression (patient is not giving any reply with the facial expression of what the other person is saying), the inability to execute a plan made by the patient himself, etc.
Schizophrenia is basically characterized into five types according to the types of symptoms existing in them. The various types of Schizophrenia are catatonic Schizophrenia, paranoid Schizophrenia, dysfunctional Schizophrenia, disorganized Schizophrenia and residual Schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia cannot be cured, but several medications are given in order to decrease the level of it. The medications used for treating schizophrenia are called antipsychotics.
Among these various types of Schizophrenia, Paranoid Schizophrenia is mostly seen in various persons across the globe. The patient suffering from this type of Schizophrenia develops various delusions within their brain. The patient sees that various people are intentionally trying to persecute them, the patient’s has not been sent by the government on a special mission although there is no surety that the patient know of what the mission is or not?
Jealousy is also a symptom of Paranoid Schizophrenia. Sometimes a person is seen smelling or tasting things that do not exist in reality. The disease is usually predicted at an adolescent age. Paranoid Schizophrenia usually begins between the ages of15 and 35, and when there is no cure this disease can be treated with the medicine like that of Thorazine, Prolixin, Haldol and Stelazine. The availability of these drugs started in the 1950s.
During the last decade more advanced researches were done and thus more advanced medications used for treating Paranoid Schizophrenia came into existence. The drugs which have been developed in the last decade include Seroquel, Geodon, Abilify and Zyprexa. Moreover according to most of the doctors if a patient is taking older drugs then he/she must stick to those drugs only and they must not try to change.
At a rough view we can say that in one out of thousand people there is development of schizophreniform disorder which means that there are some signs of disease are present. Two third out of this develop a permanent memory illness.
