Schizophrenia. A disease or a label

  • Jul 26, 2021
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For Ignacio Hernandez Cosme. February 26, 2018

Schizophrenia. A disease or a label

Here we find a new article that this time I think is of great interest to all of us who are in this world of Mental Health. I have put this title in the first place since it is with the target population of my current job and for more than 15 years. Under this heading I want to include what most of you will take into account and consider that a person with schizophrenia is aggressive and usually commits a large number of crimes; In some cases you will think that many of the people who have committed a murder could be classified as crazy or schizophrenic.

In this PsicologíaOnline article, we will bring to the table the topic of Schizophrenia. A disease or a label.

I have to make it clear that studies show the fact that most of the murder or violent behavior in today's society are committed by so-called "normal" people. That in very few cases were diagnoses of schizophrenia associated. This has a very clear explanation: in most cases, people with some type of diagnosis psychiatric patients are under the "control" of their relatives and it is very difficult for them to get out of the circles that they mark. But in the case of being able to get out of these, today there are some

antipsychotic medications (neuroleptics) that make a disappearance effect of all kinds of symptoms, both positive and negative (so that we understand each other: delusions, hallucinations, negativistic behaviors ...).

I have to comment, that the effect of neuroleptics it would not be in any way satisfactory, if it is not accompanied by the psychotherapies used in recent decades, see the work with delusions and hallucinations, psychoeducation work groups where work strategies are applied to the entire symptomatology as well as knowledge of the secondary effects of the medication (among other tasks), the work of social skills is very important for the management of possible conflictive situations that may be found in their daily life, in addition to some specific for each population in their different personal avatars of daily life and focused on individual intervention personalized.

As a consequence of the above, people with a psychiatric diagnosis are rare who have symptoms since they are controlled by the medication they take in addition to being under a continuous family supervision (which from my point of view is inappropriate) since, in most cases they fall into this stigmatizing process of their relatives.

Finally, I wanted to emphasize the damage done by many professional levels in which they stigmatize and psychiatrize the reality of people. This is the preponderant medical model, which considers sick people and carries a labeling that makes the person the size of Obelix carry a slab.

This tag makes the person wear an ongoing self-fulfilling prophecy And let me explain: when he commits any kind of behavior (be it violent, disruptive, inappropriate ...) he says- "Of course he's schizophrenic, that's why he commits this types of behaviors, you know those who are crazy... "- and it is possible to provide feedback on what society has labeled as disruptive, abnormal, upset, etc.

What I have defined as labeling, is usually what happens with most of the false beliefs present in today's society. Ex: Gypsies usually pass drugs, Romanians are all thieves, English are a society that drinks a lot of beer, Chinese are all Buddhists, schizophrenics are people violent ...

All these false beliefs, As they are present in many areas of society, they do not go through a logical verification of what we evaluate and, if we see a schizophrenic or a gypsy we already presuppose what society manifests without making a logical reasoning to say is it true that they affirm in this person that know? We have a great tendency to maintain false beliefs and we are guided by what society imposes on us, that is, we are dependent on what our society dictates.

This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.

Schizophrenia. A disease or a label

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