Nine Myths about Schizophrenia
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- This video describes nine myths about schizophrenia.
Myth number one: Schizophrenia is a rare mental disorder. Schizophrenia affects about 0.3 to 0.7% of the population and schizoaffective disorder affects another 0.3% of the population. Schizophrenia might not be as common as a number of other mental disorders, but it is by no means rare.
Myth number two: Schizophrenia is the same thing as split personality. I think this comes from the origin of the term schizophrenia which means “split mind,” but actually schizophrenia really has nothing to do with split personality or split mind.
Myth number three: Schizophrenia is the same thing as severely and persistently mentally ill (SPMI). There is some overlap between these two terms but SPMI covers the effects of mental disorders, not specifically any particular mental disorder. Usually we think of SPMI as encompassing schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and sometimes antisocial personality disorder. Someone who is categorized as severely and persistent mentally ill may have schizophrenia, but they also may have other mental disorders.
Myth number four: Individuals with schizophrenia are violent. There is a slight increase in risk of violence associated with schizophrenia and also associated with a few other mental disorders, like bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. This isn't a dramatic increase in risk, just a slight risk and we see more of the risk around the psychotic phase of these mental disorders. We see the greatest risk and if a substance use disorder is comorbid with schizophrenia.
Myth number five: Schizophrenia is really just a fear of the government. When we look at the themes of the delusions that occur with schizophrenia, a fear of the government is a popular theme, but there are many other types of presentations of schizophrenia that don't involve paranoia. Someone can have a fear of the government and a fear of being spied on and that can be completely unrelated to schizophrenia.
Myth number six: Schizophrenia is caused by dysfunctional or abusive parents. Specifically, we see with this myth the idea that schizophrenia is caused by an overprotective or abusive mother. This comes from an old term referred to as the schizophrenogenic mother and that later expanded to the schizophrenogenic family. This theory was really based on this idea that somehow a mother or a family could cause schizophrenia through certain behaviors. The term schizophrenogenic means to cause schizophrenia. We know from research that there is no such thing as the schizophrenogenic mother or the schizophrenogenic family. There are environmental contributors to the development of schizophrenia, but parenting is not a substantial contributor.
Myth number seven: Schizoaffective disorder is a more severe version or type of schizophrenia. I can understand why this myth persists. If we look at schizoaffective disorder, it has the features of schizophrenia plus major mood disturbances like mania or depression. It kind of makes sense that we would think of schizoaffective as being more severe, but actually schizoaffective disorder is often not more severe than schizophrenia. The prognosis for schizoaffective disorder is actually a little bit better than the prognosis for schizophrenia.
Myth number eight: Schizophrenia is caused through genetics only. There is a substantial genetic contribution to the development of schizophrenia, for example, if somebody has an identical twin who has schizophrenia there's a 40 - 65% percent chance that that individual will develop schizophrenia themselves, but that leaves a lot of other possible causes to schizophrenia. We call these environmental causes, like stress, exposure to trauma, and other different elements. There is a genetic contribution that is strong in schizophrenia, but that's not all that causes this disorder.
Myth number nine: Schizophrenia is not treatable. There are various treatments available for schizophrenia including talk therapy and medication. Usually, we see talk therapy and medication combined when treating schizophrenia. There's a lot of different research about what type of recovery pattern we could expect with schizophrenia. Overall, we know that about 25% of individuals with schizophrenia will experience significant improvement and about 50% will experience mild to moderate improvement of their symptoms. That leaves 25% that really don't see much improvement at all, which is unfortunate. We need to work harder in terms of research about schizophrenia to improve the treatments available. That leaves 75% that do improve significantly or improve somewhat, so schizophrenia is treatable.
Thank you.
At 25 my son suddenly developed schizophrenia. Coincidentally, I had just graduated and obtained my license as a psychiatric technician and had spent the last year working as a psychiatric technician trainee at the atascadero state hospital in California. I was working with the worst cases, murderers etc. And some poor gentle souls who were depressed and would give their life to save another.
But for my son there were no red flags. It was sudden and intense. It was hell getting him treatment even though I knew what to do. And I did do what I was taught. My son was too delusional to get help on his own. It was hell trying to advocate for him. All I was taught was BS. The apathy in my community of san luis obispo was shameful. Even with my training and license. I was disregarded. Why? Because I was his mom. The family of people with mental illness is looked down on. Even in school, teachers made comments like you can tell who is visiting the patients by their junky cars and style of dress. Sadly, at the time I believed them. My biggest lesson was not in school or even working hands on whith the worse case scenarios that would leave most trembling. No, my lesson was to have my son develop schizophrenia. Something I nor anyone in my family would have thought possible in a million years. I was very empathetic already. Now, I'm empathetic and understand. I quit work at that hospital for various reasons. But I'm thankful for the knowledge I gained. Had I not known about this illness, I would not have been able to be supportive. Today, my son is in his early 30s and lives across the street. I'm able to to be his mom and psych tech. I check he has his meds, is going to his appointments with the psychiatrist etc but still it's not easy and he has had to go to the hospital 3 times. Better the hospital then dead or incarcerated or worse. I tell my story because I don't think people realize how difficult it is on family and even friends. Most don't have the training to deal with it all. I had a year of extensive academic and hands on training. Half the class dropped out before graduation. I think we need to learn fact from fiction before graduating high school. I think the topic of mental health needs to be a priority. It kind of is. Unfortunately, myths more then facts are learned from the media. The topic of keeping guns from the mentally Ill is a joke. Sane people kill too and the mentally ill are easy targets. Yes there are criminals who have a mental illness. And there are criminals who don't have one. I have friends and a son who have a mental illness and I trust them more then people who have never had a mental problem in their life. Chris Watts is a good example. Never gets angry, Never rebelled, didn't have a problem with drugs or alcohol and no mental illness. And he was perfect if you ask his friends and family. Perfect until he had an affair, lied, killed his family, lied, and is still lieing. He lies he doesn't remember and was confused. I spent a year seeing what murderers with a mental illness looks like. Long enough to know that he has no signs or symptoms of being confused from a mental illness.
I may be wrong. I may change my mind with more information. For now, these are my thoughts and opinions after watching your presentation.
Again thank you for all the time and effort you put into making this video.
I was diagnosed Bipolar 1 disorder with psychotic features earlier this year unfortunately, but your channel has been extremely helpful for me in learning about psychotic disorders and psychosis in general. Your videos couldn't be more objective, straight forward, clear in content, and concise all around and they have helped me tremendously in understanding my condition and even have allowed me a little bit stronger insight when I become more symptomatic. You are really making a difference even just by spreading accurate clinical information to the internet as a mental health clinician, so thank you for that.
Even just being educated by itself has been extremely helpful and it's even more helpful alongside my regular psychotherapy sessions and the daily mood stabilizer + antipsychotic treatment. I am very grateful for this channel and any other mental health related channels like yours. Having access to this kind of objective information has made my recovery process a lot more "comfortable" and familiar. I don't know if this comment will get buried, but if you do happen to see this, thank you!
I have a Schizoaffective disorder.
as always, very good videos
Thank you!
Paranoid schizophrenic here. Thank you for helping clear up these myths around us!
Good choice of myths. In particular the prevalence rates being higher than most people expect. Hopefully this then encourages people to realise how well controlled most people's symptoms are rather than immediately associating it with the small proportion of severe cases seen on the wards.
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"Sometimes they worry about being spied on."
*fixes sticky note *
That would be more like anxiety :P
Trauma while in the womb changes the brain chemistry I'm no doctor but why couldnt it cause this and other personality disorders
My is that statistically, schizophrenic saint more likely to become a victim of a violent crime, rather than to commit one
Are the rates based only on those who have been diagnosed with schizo?
In regards to schizophrenia being rare do you mean .3 of an percent ? Or 30%-70% I just got really confused . I would appreciate if I got some clarification. Thanks 🙏
Thank you doc.....i have cronic migraine awful anxiety i dont want to take antidepressants afraid i might get hooked....😅
Yes there is a risk of violence. But only if the person is violent by nature I believe.Maybe raised in an environment that’s not so good. Who knows
The sad thing is when they commit a murder and spend life in prison with no recognition of this mental disorder/disease.
At what age can it begin to become problematic?
a uncle of mine has it :/
As a mental health professional, I would anytime choose to work with person experiencing schizophrenia over someone with personality disorder
I have factitous disorder. Is that a personality disorder?
Your comment is quite stigmatising and discriminating against people with PD...as all MH 'professionals' I know....
Imagine that a 4D Space-Time environment exists, and that we live within it, but that we are always confined to Real-Time, and thus we would not extend across time, but we would move across time. So here we would be within our little reality, unable to look beyond the confinement of the present time. So our little brains would exist within the present. However, Space-Time is 4 dimensional, and so time would exist outside of the present time. From outside of the present, one could toy with a brain that exists within the present. But who would believe that ! Meanwhile, if you have a 3D inside, and a 4D outside, and of course the laws of physics are different on each side as a consequence of 3D and 4D being different, strange things would seem to happen when events are governed from the outside, the side that people don't seem to think exists. You would end up with "Action at a Distance", "Entangled Pairs", "Quantum Erasure", "Delayed Quantum Choice", etc.
If you insist that the 4D outside is the source of schizophrenia, rather than it be a mere mental illness, you are tagged as being a crackpot, or worse. But then again, if you claimed to have figured out the entirety of reality, you too will be tagged as being a crackpot, or worse. Every possible form of opposition and rejection will be thrown at anyone making either of these extreme claims, for it is currently being demanded that this kind of intelligence is simply NOT to be allowed.
Cause it's not a form of intelligence.
@@Skyswindler OK, my using this kind of intelligence, I long ago pointed out something that was odd about "Motion", something that no one else seemed to have even noticed. By no coincidence, it was felt by everyone else that only a crazy crackpot would see what I saw. But I did not give up. Despite me having no physics education at all, by the time I had finished my independent analysis of motion, I had also independently derived all of the mathematical equations found within Einstein's theory of Special Relativity(SR), along with the Lorentz Transformations equations. I also derived these equations via a method that is far simpler than anyone else has thought of up to this date. And so, the intelligence that I speak of, can't be all that bad.
One thing you got wrong you said their is a genectic component to schizophrenia.
The problem with this is when you are tested for schizophrenia they don't do a genectic test.
If they had a genectic test they would use one.
But someone could just fake it and a psychiatrist would not know.
Just because it runs in family's does not mean genetics are the cause.
All people in the family that got schizophrenia might of had enough trama to cause it.
Plus unless a genectic test is developed and that is used to determine if you have schizophrenia I'm not going to believe it.
I have a friend with schizophrenia & am wondering if she could be dangerous to live with. Reason being that an oriental man riding a Grey Hound bus decapitated a man in the seat ahead of him because he said he heard Jesus telling him to do it.
Where did you hear that from ?
Because if you got that from the new's the new's media are know liars.
The problem with your reason is that it's just a story that you heard, not actual behavior coming from her. This isn't really a good reason, and just because someone else became violent because of such delusions, doesn't mean you have to the afraid of everyone who has schizophrenia.
Interesting, but I disagree about Myth about toxic mothers. Toxic mothers are horrendous and should be sent to jails, as they exist and very much so.
He need to say you need to eat your body is letting you know it is starving not just any food get the right food your body is off Balance period not Medication Doctors
What bull. There are sooo many treatmments, right?