Schizophrenia is a common functional severe psychosis. A small number of patients may remit spontaneously, and without treatment, most patients progress to mental decline over several years.

As to whether a five-year-long schizophrenia can be cured, it depends on the type of schizophrenia you have, whether it is severe or mild, the triggers of the onset of the disease, and the attitude of your family, and so on, and it cannot be generalized. Some types of patients have a better prognosis through active treatment.

I once met a male patient who was in his thirties but had not started a family, was not financially well-off, and refused to bear hardships and work hard, so he might have low self-esteem and developed the disease.

He often steals things from other people's homes to eat, steals alcohol to drink, and sometimes chases women naked. There was no one at home to take care of him; his father had died, his mother was old, and his brother couldn't take care of himself and often left him unattended in a psychiatric hospital.

I had talked to him and educated him not to pretend to be crazy, to face society positively while he was young, to work hard and to be industrious, and so on. I also explained that psychotropic drugs are very toxic and that taking too many of them will harm the liver and kidneys.

After hearing my words, he said to me in a loud voice: "Yes, yes, every time the hospitalized doctor asked me to take medicine I put it in my mouth and then secretly went to the toilet and spit it out", in fact, he was not very sick. In fact, he was not very sick. Patients like this will be fine as long as their desires are satisfied and they are properly medicated.

There is also a male patient, because of the birth of two daughters did not get a boy psychological imbalance and morbidity. He often smashed people's doors and glass windows, walked around for no reason, hurt people and destroyed things, and was repeatedly hospitalized without being cured.

In recent years, the state has taken care of him by providing him with low income insurance, helping him build a house, and providing him with free medical care, which has greatly alleviated his illness. He can participate in labor and production, and often talk to me, play table tennis, learn to play the zither and so on. However, he still needs to take a small amount of medication, and if he stops taking it, he will suffer from insomnia.

So whether or not schizophrenia can be cured depends entirely on your condition and your family's attitude. Positive treatment and good psychological counseling will definitely help the disease recover, and vice versa, the prognosis is poor.

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It should be said that of course there is hope, no matter how serious schizophrenia, even intractable schizophrenia that gives psychiatrists a headache can be treated to alleviate the mental symptoms, and if the alleviation is good, it is possible to restore some of the social functioning, that is, to make you mentally well enough to carry on with a normal life, isn't this considered hope?

Is there no hope for schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is the most serious mental disorder known to date, with complex symptoms, highly disabling symptoms, high recurrence, and often starts in youth, so once a young person suffers from schizophrenia, and does not receive timely and effective treatment, or the treatment effect is unsatisfactory, it is very likely that this young person will be far from a normal life trajectory. It is true that the current medical level cannot guarantee a cure for schizophrenia, but there are still some schizophrenic patients who have satisfactory treatment results, and can even reach the level of complete remission of mental symptoms, so we also call it the period of complete remission of schizophrenia.

This designation has been recognized in the latest edition of the International Diagnostic Criteria, which means that the subsequent diagnostic typology of schizophrenia can now distinguish between patients with mild, moderate and severe diagnoses of the same disease. Many mildly ill patients are fully able to engage in normal life.

So do you still think there is no hope for schizophrenia? Of course, the premise is to adhere to the doctor's instructions standardized treatment, can not arbitrarily reduce the drug, must be taken on time, the first episode of schizophrenia patients are recommended to take antipsychotic drugs for 2-3 years, the second episode is recommended to take medication for 5 years, if more than three episodes of schizophrenia must be long-term medication, the purpose of the only one, to reduce the chances of relapse of schizophrenia patients, so that they return to the original life.

A worldwide recognized treatment for schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder, and the manifestation of progressive aggravation, after diagnosis must be carried out as soon as possible antipsychotic drugs systematic treatment, not to say that psychotherapy is useless, but a single psychotherapy for schizophrenic patients can also be regarded as useless. Doctors do psychotherapy is still so, the psychological counselor to do psychological counseling is even more of a joke, this point in the national legislation is also clearly stipulated, if there is really a counselor dares to give you treatment for schizophrenia, you can sue him for unlawful practice of medicine.

Antipsychotic medication originated in the 1960's. Different medications target different neuroreceptors and regulate the body's sensory, thinking, emotional, and volitional functions by acting on differently functioning neuroreceptors. For example, the chart below shows the affinity of the different receptors for several of the major antipsychotic drugs available today. In comparison, clozapine and olanzapine have a greater affinity for different receptors, so olanzapine and clozapine are both representative of multi-receptor drugs, and can be said to be the two antipsychotic drugs whose efficacy is widely recognized.

Schizophrenia is definitely not a terminal disease with no hope of treatment, in fact, many patients in life have many reasons for the poor results of treatment, there are medical, social and family aspects, so the treatment of schizophrenia must be a multi-functional cooperation to achieve the best results.

Realistically, it is still very promising.

Clinically this is common:

For various reasons.

For example, schizophrenic patients in general do not admit that they are sick and refuse to go to the doctor, and their families cannot bear to follow the doctor's advice to send the patients to hospitals for compulsory hospitalization, and thus they have been at home in a kind of self-imposed isolation without effective and systematic treatment, and some of them have even never taken antipsychotics, let alone received psychological counselling and psychotherapy.

And there are these criteria for determining the healing of schizophrenia:

1. The severity of the patient's condition;

2. The duration of the disease;

3. Whether or not they have received treatment;

4. The presence or absence of a family history;

5. How was the personality before the disease;

6. Whether there is a clear life event.

In terms of the question you asked, it is clear that the patient has not received treatment that would qualify for #3 of these (other circumstances not known).

In other words, it's considered an initial treatment.

This condition is very common in clinical practice, and once treated often leads to unexpected and miraculous results.

However, because there are five other uncertain variables, the optimal timing of treatment may also be delayed and the efficacy may not be significant.

We would also like to remind the family members of schizophrenic patients at home not to let the patient go because he or she refuses treatment due to lack of "self-knowledge", which will not only delay the patient, but also bring more trouble to himself or herself!

Is there any hope for a five-year-long schizophrenia that has never been treated?

It's really hard to say.

Although we have always advocated early treatment, sometimes staging and later rehabilitation as well as family support situations can affect a patient's prognosis.

First of all, schizophrenia is categorized into simple, adolescent, catatonic and paranoid and other types. Among them, the catatonic type usually has an acute onset, and in terms of outcome, patients of this type have the best prognosis, and even some cases can be relieved on their own, and after recovery, they are no different from normal people; the second is the paranoid type, which is the most common, accounting for more than 50% of clinical cases, and after treatment, the regression of social functioning is not often obvious; in contrast, the prognosis of the other three types is poorer, and will progress to varying degrees if not treated in a timely manner.

Patients with the nervous type are characterized by a sudden onset of speechlessness and immobility (representative of inarticulateness and immobility), and in typical cases there is a state of rigidity, where the patient moves slowly, remains in a certain position for a long period of time, and even has to be taken care of by others to eat. The catatonic type is characterized by "paranoia".

As I said before, for patients with first-episode schizophrenia, the 5-year period of onset of the disease is a critical period for treatment, but this does not mean that there is no treatment for patients once they miss this period, on the contrary, we need to be more careful in this case. If mental symptoms persist during these five years, it may indicate that treatment will be more difficult in the future. If symptoms appear intermittently, or if they do not appear most of the time, it may indicate that the prognosis is better.

In addition, the maintenance of treatment is also very important. Many patients are sensitive to the drugs and have good results when they start treatment, but when the symptoms disappear, they refuse to continue to take the drugs, resulting in a relapse of the disease, and again the treatment often requires greater difficulty.

In summary, the onset of five years of schizophrenia patients, or first to be treated to do prognosis analysis, according to the patient's onset of disease urgency, symptom characteristics, sensitivity to drugs and other comprehensive analysis, in the failure to see the patient, and a short history, is not enough to make accurate judgments.

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Why not see which, it depends on their own state, if the seriousness of the bad adjustment, if it is minor should go to the hospital immediately, do not delay, this is not other diseases, mental illnesses in general, but also to figure out their own, but also to alleviate the psychological pressure, the key is to think of their own think of life, they learn to go with the flow naturally, anything do not force.

Diagnosed schizophrenia definitely requires treatment, and generally speaking, the earlier the treatment, the better the outcome! Although untreated for five years, coming to treatment now brings benefits that are certainly better than no treatment at all. It is never too late to standardize treatment as opposed to no treatment! Anything is possible!

There is hope.

After years of research, our professionals have found some effective ways to cure schizophrenia. Although it is not possible to cure all of them, it is still possible to cure a large portion of patients.

The main factors determining the prognosis of treatment are the severity of the disease, the cause of the disease, compliance with treatment, and the skill level of the person treating the patient.

There is hope ...... Although the effect is not as good as that of the first acute attack, systematic and regular treatment is bound to be effective for schizophrenia that has lasted up to five years ...... If we don't carry out systematic and professional treatments, the patient's cognitive function, emotional function, social function, and self-care ability will decline. functioning, social functioning, and self-care ability will all decline ......

Therefore, it must be treated as quickly as possible and requires specialized treatment with psychiatric medication

During remission, counseling and psychotherapy sessions can be integrated to promote longer remission and enhance cognitive, emotional, social, and self-care skills.

Deep Blessings ......

It's no use sympathizing with someone who has had untreated schizophrenia for five years. Is it your family that's not good enough for you? Is your family not good enough for you, or are you not good enough for yourself? If you are a if the person, if there is a family, in the premise of not delaying the future of the child, you have to be in a better or famous Chinese medicine to go to the clinic, I hope you can pay attention to life, see life, your personal life to live better, live like a human being!

For diseases the main active treatment. Active shielding of triggering factors. Proactively facing the disease is the main key to treating the disease. Doctors can only mean to your treatment.