In recent blogs we have discussed impediments arising from a variety of sources that can discourage consumers from accepting the fact that they have a serious mental illness, thereby resulting in dangerous delays in their receipt of effective treatment. In these discussions we've found that many of the impediments originate with well-meaning others and are the products of stigma born of fear and ignorance concerning mental illness. In this blog, I will again draw upon my own experience...
In the hopes to generate comments I feel it is time to revisit the topic of SZ drugs. The question of the month is: What Are Your... Read more »
The Question of the Month is: What does schizophrenia mean to you? How does it play out and what would you like the general public to... Read more »
The question of the month is also a question posed to the members of the International Women's Writing Guild (IWWG) in their newsletter. ... Read more »
Hi everyone, Like a pebble in my shoe I've had something almost irk me for quite some time now: the ongoing debate about whether a... Read more »
Hello, The topic for the Question of the Month arrived in my head after I read David's SharePost about the man in the mirror. My... Read more »
Source: Medifocus Guidebook on: Schizophrenia
Have you treated many patients with schizophrenia? What type of schizophrenia do I have? Could my symptoms be due to any other condition? Is my... Read more »
A mother writes that her son, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, stops taking his Risperdal when he is feeling better. She then has... Read more »
Being diagnosed with any medical condition can be frightening, but a schizophrenia diagnosis can be particularly confusing because the thought... Read more »
Results from a new study have found no link between the flu pandemic of 1957 and later schizophrenia rates. This finding calls into the question the... Read more »
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