5 Major errors produced by the guardians of people with schizophrenia

Over the past few years, numerous speeches and presentations I gave to groups interested in mental; most of the talks were guards, especially parents of young adults with mental disorders. After that I conclude my remarks and start session of questions and answers, I am almost always asked what caregivers can do to help people with mental illness. My experience of suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, as well as personal communications with many other people with this mental disease, I compiled a list of common errors should avoid guards. Here are the top five.

To avoid errors in five

1: Love Tough approach

Support is often abused by those with alcohol and other drug addictions, and therefore the guardians are often concerned allow the person they have as a result, they often adopt a "tough love" approach to make sure that they add to the problem of the toxicomanie.Cette approach should not be taken with someone schizophrénie.Il was much disability caused by negative symptoms (severe apathy, loss of motivation, a lack of joy, reduces the desire to socialize, flat emotions, etc.) disease and love hard approach in terms of supporting the person suffering from schizophrenia has serious risk, including the homeless. A kick in the butt is perhaps what addict must get right life, but it is constant support and drugs that a person with schizophrenia should simply facing the disease.

2: Too many emotional support

Support is needed for the person suffering from schizophrenia to take care of his illness, but the guards often committed an error on the side of getting too close emotionally. Regardless of what the individual was to develop the disease, almost all people with schizophrenia have need keep people an emotional distance.Guards must respect this limit and do not be offended is probably necessary to maintain health.

3: Bear expectations

As the person suffering from schizophrenia encompasses the latest psychotic episode, there is a natural breeding expectations about what the individual can and should do.However, the bar is often triggered too quickly for the individual track.As a result additional stress on the underside of the person and the santé.De many family members noted that as their ailing to do much, that he had a setback and or of relapse psychotique.Sans doubt these failures are partially due to stress increased growing expectations.

4: Be critical of the individual or symptoms

It has been clearly established in psychiatric literature that people with schizophrenia have an increased sensitivity to criticism.Guards with essential provisions should actively limit their critical to the health of the person in their soins.En in addition, many with schizophrenia do not have good command of their symptoms, sort of watchmen shouldn't blame for having symptoms of the disease.Guardians of patients undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer not blame for patients with cancer, cancer or vomiting, and nor should guardians of those with schizophrenia blames the individual to be sick.

5: Prevent smoking

United States approximately 20% of the population.Parmi smoking rates people suffering from schizophrenia, the rate is more than 90% .and, nearly half of all the United States cigarettes are smoked by persons mentale.Il disease has been found, anecdotal both scientifically, that smoking help with the symptoms of nicotine schizophrénie.La helps reduce hallucinations and paranoia and it improves memory and concentration.La nicotine, however, change numerous antipsychotic drugs, blood so care must be taken when a person changes the amount that he or she smokes, including early or to quit smoking.

Andrew d. Gadtke is the author of the regular and deca, a book that describes the inner experience of schizophrenia and disorder bipolaire.Son book and blog found on its Web site.

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