Inspirational Therapy for Schizophrenia Treatment

Inspirational Therapy provides personalized treatment for individuals with schizophrenia, led by licensed therapist Carmen Jeffery. Using medication management and psychotherapy, our program aims to improve the quality of life for those with severe conditions.

Why Inspirational Therapy?

Inspirational Therapies Schizophrenia Treatment is a combined treatment program that comprises medication, counseling, and therapy. During acute phases, we may prescribe antipsychotic medicines to reduce symptoms, and other drugs may be prescribed as necessary. We offer counseling, cognitive behavioral therapy, and family therapy to help patients make sense of their experiences, cope with day-to-day issues, and manage behavior more effectively. We also stress the importance of maintaining physical health, as people with schizophrenia may have poorer physical health than the general population. Our goal is to help patients manage their condition, reduce the risk of relapse, and improve their quality of life.

What is Schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a severe mental health disorder, individuals that received a diagnosis of this mental illness have difficulty being able to differentiate between reality and hallucinations and delusions because reality is interpreted abnormally with schizophrenia. This mental health condition can cause symptoms of auditory and visual hallucinations, tactile, olfactory and gustatory are less common; symptoms of delusions, disorganized thinking, impairment in daily functioning that can lead to individuals becoming disabled. However, with appropriate schizophrenia treatment individuals with this condition can learn to manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life.

Symptoms

Schizophrenia includes multiple issues with thinking (cognitions), emotions and behavior. Symptoms vary between individuals but generally include delusions, hallucinations or unorganized articulation, most have an impairment in functioning. Symptoms are as follows:

● Delusions: fictitious beliefs that are not realistic. For example, one with schizophrenia may believe that someone is talking about them or out to get them; they are extraordinary, believe a person is in love with them, or something destructive is going to happen. Delusions are common in people that have schizophrenia.

● Hallucinations: seeing or hearing things that do not exist. A person with a diagnosis of schizophrenia will see and/or hear unrealistic sights and sounds that others around them are not experiencing. Hearing voices is the most common sound.

● Disorganized thinking (speech): Disorganized thoughts is conjecture from disorganized speech. Communication is greatly impaired, answers to questions may be irrelevant to what was asked. Sometimes individuals put together incomprehensible words, sometimes called “word salad.”

● Extremely disorganized or abnormal motor behavior: This can be shown in multiple ways, unforeseeable agitation to acting childlike. It is difficult to complete simple tasks, refusal to receive instructions, improper demeanor, complete absence of response, or extreme or ineffective movement.

● Negative symptoms: individuals do not have the ability to function ordinarily. The person with this mental illness may not groom regularly or does not show emotion and will not make eye contact, flat effect of facial expressions, or tone of voice is usually monotone. The individual loses interest in daily activities, isolates or does not experience enjoyment.

Each person with schizophrenia has a different level of severity regarding their symptoms, there will be times when the symptoms will become more severe and even an exemption of symptoms but stressors seem to increase the symptoms.

In males, schizophrenia symptoms tend to develop in the early to mid-20s. In females, the symptoms begin in the late 20s. It is not common for children to be diagnosed with schizophrenia and very rare with individuals older than 45 years old. Regardless of the age getting the right treatment for schizophrenia is vital. Inspirational Therapies for Schizophrenia Treatment provides specialized treatment for individuals with schizophrenia.

Symptoms in teens

The symptoms in teens correlate with those of adults, but it may be difficult to notice. This may happen because some of the early symptoms of schizophrenia in teens are common for development during teenage years, such as;

● Isolation from others
● Performance in school may decline
● Difficulty sleeping
● Irritability or depression
● Motivation has decreased
● Teens are less likely to have delusions
● More likely to have visual hallucinations

Note: Recreational substance use can mirror signs and symptoms.

When To Seek Professional Help

Individuals with schizophrenia may not recognize that their symptoms may need professional attention and may stem from a mental health disorder. Family and friends are usually the ones to seek help for them.

How To Help Someone Who May Have Schizophrenia

If there is someone that you care about that may have symptoms of schizophrenia, tell them your concerns. Even though it is not legal to force anyone to get professional assistance, it is important to support and encourage them by finding a professional that is able to help.

If this person is a danger to self or others or cannot provide shelter, food or clothing for themselves, please call 911 or any other emergency responders for help so they can get evaluated by a mental health professional you can also reach out to Inspirational Therapy for Schizophrenia Treatment.

Sometimes, emergency hospitalization is necessary. The laws vary from state to state regarding involuntary commitment for mental health treatment. Contact mental health agencies or police departments in your area for details.

Schizophrenia Treatment

Schizophrenia Treatment is a lifelong process; the treatment continues even when the symptoms seem to have decreased in an individual. Medication and psychosocial therapy can help individuals to cope with this mental health condition.

Medications

Schizophrenia treatment requires medication; antipsychotic medications are commonly prescribed by professionals. Psychotic medication is to manage and reduce the symptoms, it is essential to use the least amount of medication possible in order to decrease the symptoms. Many individuals with a schizophrenic diagnosis may be hesitant to take medication because of the side effects. Being cooperative with the treatment professional may impact drug choice. For example, a person that struggles to take their medications daily may do better with getting an injection that may last longer than pills.

Feel free to ask the doctor about the benefits and/or side effects of the drugs they may want to prescribe.

Suicidal Thoughts And Behavior

Once the psychosis is reduced, in addition to taking medications as prescribed, psychological and psychosocial interventions are important. These may include:

● Individual therapy: Psychotherapy can assist in normalizing thought patterns. Learning how to cope with stress in a healthy manner and being able to recognize symptoms to help individuals to better manage their mental illness.

● Social skills training: this helps to build social skills and develop communication and to assist with participation in daily activities.

● Vocational rehabilitation and supported employment: this focuses on assisting individuals with schizophrenia to prepare for, find and keep employment.

Psychosocial Interventions

Once the psychosis is reduced, in addition to taking medications as prescribed, psychological and psychosocial interventions are important for Schizophrenia Treatment. These may include:

● Individual therapy: Psychotherapy can assist in normalizing thought patterns. Learning how to cope with stress in a healthy manner and being able to recognize symptoms to help individuals to better manage their mental illness.

● Social skills training: this helps to build social skills and develop communication and to assist with participation in daily activities.

● Vocational rehabilitation and supported employment: this focuses on assisting individuals with schizophrenia to prepare for, find and keep employment.

Most people with schizophrenia must have some daily living support. There are multiple resources in the community that have programs such as Community Based Rehabilitative Specialists (CBRS), research shows that CBRS workers are helping people with schizophrenia to build skill sets that help to improve their quality of life. Case Managers to assist individuals in linking to resources, make sure they have the proper paperwork to become eligible for programs and services and can take these individuals to the food bank. Our providers at Inspirational Therapy for Schizophrenia Treatment make sure that each one of their immediate needs are met.

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