Schizophrenia Symptoms and Treatment
If you are suffering from schizophrenia and a substance addiction, there are treatment centers ready to help you NOW. Your schizophrenia symptoms and addiction is a life-threatening combination. You’re sick, both mentally and physically, and this sickness is taking over your life, perhaps hurting the people closest to you as well as yourself. You can feel its power over you, and you know it’s time to break this bond, but you don’t know how. Recovery Connection can help – call 1-800-99-DETOX and get help for schizophrenia and addiction NOW!
Schizophrenia is a Brain Disease
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Schizophrenia could be defined as an uninterrupted period of illness when there is either a major depressive disorder, a manic episode or both. During this period of uninterrupted illness you will have experienced hallucinations or delusions for at least two weeks in the absence of significant mood symptoms.
Approximately one percent of the population develops schizophrenia symptoms and schizophrenia disorder during their lifetime – more than two million Americans suffer from schizophrenia in a given year. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men, usually in the late teens or early twenties. Women are generally affected in their twenties to early thirties.
Schizophrenia Symptoms
People with schizophrenia often suffer terrifying schizophrenia symptoms such as hearing internal voices not heard by others, or believing that other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. These schizophrenia symptoms may leave them fearful and withdrawn. Their speech and behavior can be so disorganized that it may be incomprehensible or frightening to others.
Schizophrenia Treatment
To date, available schizophrenia treatments can relieve many schizophrenia symptoms, but most people with schizophrenia continue to suffer some schizophrenia symptoms throughout their lives; it has been estimated that no more than one in five individuals suffering from schizophrenia recovers completely.
This however, is a time of hope for people with schizophrenia and their families. Research is gradually leading to new and safer medications and unraveling the complex causes of the disease. Scientists are using many approaches from the study of molecular genetics to the study of populations to learn about schizophrenia. Methods of imaging the brain's structure and function hold the promise of new insights into the disorder.
It is not unusual for people suffering from schizophrenia to turn to drugs or alcohol in order to cope with their schizophrenia symptoms. You often look to change or elevate your mood by using various substances. Unfortunately, before you realize it, you have become dependant or addicted to those substances.
If you believe you or someone you know needs help with schizophrenia or drug addiction, or for immediate assistance finding drug rehab centers specializing in dual diagnosis, please call Recovery Connection now at 1-800-99-DETOX. Help is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Don't wait - GET HELP NOW!
Drug Addiction Treatment Centers:
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, D.C.
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
If your state doesn't appear on this list, please call Recovery Connection at 1-800-99-DETOX and we will be happy to assist you.
