1.is there any cure for schizophrenia?
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there is no cure BUT...you can absolutely keep it controlled by therapy and medications.  I have a friend who has been diagnosed with this terrible disease and because of the meds, you would NEVER know...just like you and me!  The site i posted in the source gives you some great resources...
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i have found that music helps sooth the body no matter mental condition you may have. it gives your brain a chance to take a break from the moment, all you can do is try it ! if it works for you great, if not - open the front door and yell at the next person that walks by,  it works for me, hint: my neighbors know I'm crazy!!\nread the following it might help!!\n \nSchizophrenia is probably the most distressing and disabling mental disorder. The first signs of schizophrenia tend to surface in adolescence or young adulthood. Symptoms are confusing and can be distressing to family and friends. \n\nPeople with schizophrenia suffer from problems with their thought processes. These lead to hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, and unusual speech or behaviour . Symptoms affect the ability to interact with others, and often people with schizophrenia withdraw from the outside world. \n\nContrary to popular belief, people with schizophrenia do not have 'split personalities'. Another common belief is that people with schizophrenia are dangerous. In fact, they can be dangerous, but mostly only during the acute phases of their disease. It is fair to say that people with schizophrenia are far more likely to be victims of violence and crime than to commit violent acts.\n\nSchizophrenia is a life-long illness and most patients will need treatment for the rest of their lives. This means they will miss out on career opportunities, stable relationships and friendships. Because of the lack of public understanding, people with schizophrenia often feel isolated and stigmatised, and may be reluctant or unable to talk about their illness. \n \n\nDespite the availability of new medication with less severe and fewer side effects, only one person in five 'recovers' from the illness, and one in ten people with schizophrenia commits suicide.\n\nSchizophrenia is distressing for everyone involved. Patients clearly suffer from great disruption to their lives. Families and friends will also be seriously affected and distressed because of the effects schizophrenia has on their relative and the burden of caring for their beloved one. Coping with the symptoms of schizophrenia can be especially difficult for relatives and friends who remember their beloved one before s/he became ill. \n\nDespite clear evidence to the contrary, many people still believe that schizophrenia is caused by poor parenting or a lack of will power. Nothing is further from the truth. Schizophrenia is a complex illness and scientists believe it is caused by a number of different factors that act together. These factors include: genetic influences, trauma (injury) to the brain occurring during or around the time of birth, as well as the effects of social isolation and/or stress. In some cases the use of drugs, such as cannabis can also be a contributing factor. However, as yet no single factor has been identified as the cause of schizophrenia.\n\nSchizophrenia affects between 1 and 2% of people. The illness occurs all over the world and the incidence (or the rate of the illness) is similar in different countries and different cultures. Men and women are at equal risk of developing the illness. Whereas in men the illness tends to surface between the ages of 16 and 25, most females develop symptoms between the ages of 25 and 30. \n \n\nWhen taken regularly and followed as prescribed, medications and other treatments for schizophrenia, can help reduce and control symptoms . However, some people don't experience the benefits of available treatments, or may prematurely discontinue treatment because of unpleasant side effects , including weight gain, or intolerance to the medication. Even when treatment is effective, patients often find it difficult to persevere with treatment. Lost career opportunities, stigma, ongoing symptoms and/or side effects can cause many difficulties and prevent patients from leading a normal life.\n\nSubstance misuse is a common concern
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In my experience, drugs are always needed.  I have worked with a couple of brave patients who were doing so well that their psychiatrist discontinued their medication.  But, both were admitted to the hospital several months later.  Because of the cognitive effects of the disease, its very difficult to treat using only therapy and I have never seen anyone respond to alternative medicines.
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No.  I don't think they've found the exact mechanism that causes schizophrenia, but it does seem to be genetic in nature. \n\nHowever, schizophrenia could cause self-harm by creating delusions where the sufferer believed that self-harm was necessary to accomplish something that the delusion led that person to think was necessary.
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schizophrenia is a clinical diagnosis of a break between personlity and reality causing illogical ways of thinking and often types of imagined things like visual and auditory hallucinations.\n\nneurosis is a mental or mood disorder with no apparent physical condition involving symptoms like anxiety, depression, and phobias, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations.\n\nschizophrenia is not all in your head, while neurosis is. schizophrenia is helped a tine bit by talk therapy, but is by no means cured by it. Neurosis on the other hand, can be cured with cognitive or other types of talk clinical therapy.
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What Causes Schizophrenia?\n\nSchizophrenia is a complex illness, and no single cause has been found. There are several theories about the causes, which include:\n\n    * Heredity. Schizophrenia runs in some families. A person can inherit a tendency to develop the illness, especially if a parent has the disorder. The risk for inheriting schizophrenia is 10 percent in those who have an immediate family member with the illness, and 40 percent if the illness affect both parents or an identical twin. However, about 60 percent of people with schizophrenia have no close relatives with the illness\n\n    * Brain chemistry. Many researchers believe that people with schizophrenia are either very sensitive to a brain chemical called dopamine, or produce too much of it. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, which are substances that allow nerve cells in the brain to send messages to each other. An imbalance of this chemical can affect the way a person's brain reacts to stimuli.\n\n    * An abnormality within the brain. Better imaging technology has allowed researchers to study the brain structure and function in people with schizophrenia. They have concluded that many individuals with the disorder have subtle abnormalities in brain structure. These abnormalities include a slight enlargement of the fluid-filled cavities (ventricles) in the brain, and a slightly smaller size of some areas of the brain. But this is not true in all people with schizophrenia, and such abnormalities also have been identified in people who do not have schizophrenia.\n\n    * Complications during pregnancy and birth. Some researchers believe that an infection or malnutrition during pregnancy, or by complications during birth, may increase the chances of that child developing schizophrenia when he or she is older.
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to cure our physical or mental disorders.
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Good luck!!\n\nIf they are a danger to themselves or others they need to be hospitalized or given meds. Most times they can be controlled, bur like most mental health issues, they stop taking them. Meds can take a while to get up to a blood level that is helpful and may need to be monitored.  A schizophrenic usually already has a psychiatrist or is being followed by a mental health center!
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Homeopathy:-\nSuicidal depression and thoughts can be cured with the regular use of the remedy AURUM MET works like a charm with depressed suicidal people. More details are needed about the person for an accurate answer but AURUM MET 30 will treat and cure Suicidal thoughts in all cases.\nTake care and God Bless you !
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No.  It can be controlled well for some people better than others, but never goes away.  Some schizophrenics THINK it has gone away and don't take their meds anymore but it really never does.
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There are many different kinds of schizophrenia and I've found everyone is a bit different.  I'm not going to bore everyone with pages of information.  Please go to the NAMI.org website and link to "inform yourself".  Their information on schizophrenia is pretty accurate.  Their emphasis is on "brain disease", and schizophrenia is a brain disease.\n\nAs opposed to personality disorders or disorders caused by abuse or trauma.  Which brings up the cute but clearly ignorant statement someone before said about which one is asking the question.  Schizophrenia is definitely not the same as multiple personality disorder (dissociative identity disorder since the latest DSM was published).  Unfortunately, there are so many people who just can't seem to understand that.  The treatment is very different for those two conditions!
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Homeopathy:-\nYou can be treated and cured by Homeopathic Medicine according to what you feel, Your detailed individual specific symptoms will decide the correct remedy for your disorder please post your exact details for a correct and appropriate answer which will truly help you and Homeopathic medicines are quite inexpensive and totally free of complications and side effects. Homeopathy treats the person not the disease that's why your symptoms are required to find the exact remedy for your troubles !\nTake Care and God Bless You !
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Treatments\n\nAlthough there is still no cure for MS, there are various strategies available to modify the disease course, treat exacerbations, manage symptoms, and improve function and safety. In combination, these treatments enhance the quality of life for people living with MS. \n\nBecause MS is so variable from one person to another, and for any one person over time, each individual's treatment needs are best identified in an ongoing collaboration with a knowledgeable physician and other members of the treatment team.\n\n\n\nModifying the Disease Course\nThe following agents can reduce future disease activity for many individuals with relapsing forms of MS, including those with secondary progressive disease who continue to have relapses.
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There is no known single cause of schizophrenia. Genetics play a huge part.  Statistically if a parent has the disorder their children have a 10% chance of developing it.  If one identical twin has schizophrenia the chances for the other twin jump to 40-50%.  Another cause can be where the fetus did not receive enough nutrients from the mother leading to the brain not developing properly.  Viral infections also play a role in the disorder.
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I feel really sorry for you and for your brother, but he is lucky to have you.  \n\nIs he interested in anything like art or music?  Maybe if you could find something that he is interested in an try to encourage that.\n\nSome hospitals and health care centres have opportunities for people like your brother to get together and meet and talk about their problems.  Sometimes just talking to other people in a similar situation is helpful.  \n\nAlso, see if you can find any schizophrenia support groups where you could get a lot of information for your brother as well as yourself.  \n\nThe links below contain a lot of info on schizophrenia and support groups and organizations.  Hope that helps.
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There is no cure for bipolar disorder; the emphasis is on management of the symptoms. A variety of medications are used to treat bipolar disorder; many people with bipolar disorder require multiple medications (sometimes up to five). Some people with bipolar disorder add to or replace their Western medication with herbal or holistic options. Still, even with optimal medication treatment, many people with the illness have some residual symptoms. Cognitive therapy may work to lessen the severity of mood swings by recognizing and managing triggering symptoms or events.
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Schizophrenia is a severe brain disease that interferes with normal brain and mental function—it can trigger hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and significant lack of motivation. Without treatment, schizophrenia affects the ability to think clearly, manage emotions, and interact appropriately with other people. It is often disabling and can profoundly affect all areas of your life (for example, becoming unable to work or go to school). Being told that you or someone you love has schizophrenia can be frightening or even devastating. The best way to improve your quality of life with schizophrenia is to learn as much as you can about this condition and then adhere to the recommended treatment.\n\nThere are several types of schizophrenia, and the specific types are diagnosed based upon symptoms. The most common type is paranoid schizophrenia, which causes fearful thoughts and hearing threatening voices.\n\nSchizophrenia does not involve multiple personalities and is not the same condition as dissociative identity disorder (also called multiple personality disorder or split personality).\n\nWhat causes schizophrenia?\n\nThere are many theories about the cause of schizophrenia, but none have yet been proven. Schizophrenia may be a genetic disorder, since your chances of developing schizophrenia increase if you have a parent or sibling with the condition. However, most people with relatives who have schizophrenia will not develop it. It may also be related to problems experienced during pregnancy (such as malnutrition, or being exposed to a viral infection) that damages the unborn child's developing nervous system. \n\nWhat are the symptoms?\n\nSchizophrenia causes two groups of symptoms: negative symptoms and positive symptoms. Positive (psychotic) symptoms refer to characteristics that are "added" to your personality. Negative symptoms are capabilities or aspects of your personality that are "lost" with schizophrenia.\n\nNegative symptoms generally include apathy or lack of motivation, self-neglect (such as not bathing), and reduced or inappropriate emotion (such as becoming angry with strangers). Negative symptoms usually appear first and may be confused with depression, and later with other conditions such as substance abuse or bipolar disorder. 1 \n\nPositive symptoms, which generally appear later, include symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized or confusing thoughts and speech.\n\nSymptoms of schizophrenia usually emerge in adolescence or early adulthood. Symptoms can appear suddenly or may develop gradually, often causing the illness to go unrecognized until it is in an advanced stage when it is more difficult to treat.\n\nHow is schizophrenia diagnosed?\n\nSchizophrenia is diagnosed primarily with a medical history and a mental health assessment. Other tests, such as blood tests or imaging tests, may be done to rule out other conditions that can mimic symptoms of schizophrenia.\n\nHow is schizophrenia treated?\n\nThere is no cure for schizophrenia. However, many people can effectively manage their symptoms with medications and professional counseling.\n\nConsistent, long-term treatment is critical to the successful management of schizophrenia. Unfortunately, people with schizophrenia often do not seek treatment or they stop treatment due to unpleasant side effects of medications or lack of support.\n\nHave a Great Day