The truth about schizophrenia

When it comes to schizophrenia, some people should be afraid. Many celebrities were once sperm patients, and the painter Van Gogh finished his famous painting "Starry Sky" in a mental hospital. Nash, a famous American economist, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 30 and still won the Nobel Prize in Economics. In fact, as long as patients receive standardized treatment, most people can return to normal work and life. Schizophrenia is not that terrible.

For patients who take drugs for the first time, 75% can achieve clinical cure, and the recurrence risk of patients who stop taking drugs is five times that of patients who continue to treat.

Whether to use antipsychotic drugs is one of the key factors.

After the symptoms are completely controlled, the first-time patients will continue to be treated for at least two years, the first-time relapsed patients will be treated for at least 3-5 years, and the patients with two or more relapses will be treated for at least 5 years. If the treatment is stable, the drug can be stopped, but if the drug is stopped blindly, it may lead to the recurrence of the disease. Every recurrence will cause new damage to the brain and the difficulty of treatment will increase.