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Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that can end up hurting someone more than anything else. It affects a person’s thinking and behaviour, and which can cause physical and mental pain and even permanent brain damage. 

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Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that can end up hurting someone more than anything else. It affects a person’s thinking and behaviour, and which can cause physical and mental pain and even permanent brain damage. 

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In most cases of schizophrenia, the patient will hear voices that aren’t there and will feel like they aren’t part of the same world as everyone else. 

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In most cases of schizophrenia, the patient will hear voices that aren’t there and will feel like they aren’t part of the same world as everyone else. 

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They have moments where they feel unsafe when they're with people who are in their trusted circle of friends, or even when they're alone.

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The John Hopkins Schizophrenia center is a facility where anyone from young adults to senior citizens can go to seek help and wellness from professionals.

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The JHSC is located in Baltimore Washington, and they have an inpatient unit with room for 10 people to stay and be observed to prevent self harm, and they have a clinic for young adults (14-24) who have early onset schizophrenia or are being diagnosed, and they have a facility where they have caregivers for adults who are struggling to keep their daily life on track with their mental illness. The last clinic is one that can start patients on a drug called clozapine, which is used in cases where other medications or antipsychotics are not working in the prevention of schizophrenic episodes.

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They care for the teens by giving them managed amounts of medication weekly, therapy sessions to help them figure out how to cope with their disorder, and meetings with their school and pediatricians to ensure the best care and schedule plan. They teach the adolescents about substance abuse and how to manage their medications properly, and there is a rehabilitation program that allows them to take a break from the “normal” world. The adults receive care from therapists, psychologists and other doctors to help them get through their journey. They work their way to being capable of caring for children or grandchildren by doing therapy (physical and mental care) every day to ensure they are ready.

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The goals of the adult treatment center is to keep them functioning and able to have a "normal" life where they can care for others without hurting themselves or their family. The teen clinic is to help reduce the chances of having a severe case of schizophrenia or any other serious mental illnesses by staying observant and persistent with treatments to prevent serious damage.

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How can someone help an individual with schizophrenia? 

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How can someone help an individual with schizophrenia? 

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You should always support the person when they need you, and if they want to be alone you have to let them be. You need to remember to keep an eye on them so they don’t commit suicide or start self harm (i.e cutting their wrists because the voices tell them to, or not being able to handle it and ending it all).

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How the illness affects the person's emotions: 

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How the illness affects the person's emotions: 

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The person may feel isolated and lonely. They might lose connection with the people they loved and trusted. Finally, they could forget who they are and come up with a new name for themselves and even a new identity.

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How the illness affects the person socially: 

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How the illness affects the person socially: 

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They start to lose contact with the people around the. They might have stopped talking to anyone. The individual may not be inclined to be in a relationship, romantically or in a friendship. Lastly, they won’t want to make plans or do anything they would in the past.

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The JHSC serves anyone who is in need of medical help due to their mental illness. They help young adults aged 14 to 24 in a clinic called the Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic (EPIC) and they have a facility for the older patients, aged 24 and up.

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How the illness affects the person physically: 

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How the illness affects the person physically: 

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They’ll feel more tired and like they’re being followed. They might feel like they’re being watched, and this can cause lower rates of happiness. They might become less inclined to do the things they loved doing, like sports or hobbies.

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There is no cure, but there are treatments that can help the patient live a somewhat “normal” life and be able to go to school or work or have healthy and safe interactions with other people.

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There is no cure, but there are treatments that can help the patient live a somewhat “normal” life and be able to go to school or work or have healthy and safe interactions with other people.

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Some treatments include:
supervised care periods (24 hour hospitalizations), therapy sessions, medications (several different ones), rehabilitation and neuropsychologist sessions.

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Should we all work on our mental health as a part of our daily lives? Could resilience be a helpful tool in our journey? 

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Should we all work on our mental health as a part of our daily lives? Could resilience be a helpful tool in our journey? 

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I think that resilience is a good thing to have in your skill set. It's important to know how to cope with traumatic or saddening events without forgetting about who you are and who can become. Resilience is about never giving up and becoming the best you that you possibly can, and every journey will be different. It doesn't matter how long it takes you, as long as you feel like you and are happy with who you are.

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People with schizophrenia can seek help at CAMH (center for addiction and mental health) or with their therapist or psychologist. They could also get a doctor's perspective to determin what regime of medication and diet are suitable and healthy for them.

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“Causes - Schizophrenia”. Nov 11, 2019.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/schizophrenia/causes/

“What Causes Schizophrenia?”. Nov, 2020.

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/schizophrenia/causes/

Mennitto, D. December 3, 2018. Treatment Services at The Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/specialty_areas/schizophrenia/patient_information/treatment_services/index.html

Mennitto, D. September 4, 2020. The Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/specialty_areas/schizophrenia/

“Schizophrenia”. 2017.

https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/mental-illness-and-addiction-index/schizophrenia

“Schizophrenia - Overview”. Revised May, 2020

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml

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The person is talking to themselves, talking is slurred or very fast, they might also have a low motivation to do anything productive. They might have a hard time planning anything, or they could lose the memory of making plans. The individual may be talking to someone who isn’t there or even real, and they could make up names for objects or images. This person may be making up stories that aren’t real or not remembering people they loved, or even forgetting who they are. Worst of all, they might think that their loved ones or parents or friends are constantly trying to harm them.

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Traumatic events, the death of a close person/family member, genetics, any type of abuse and mostly in teens and young adults, a divorce.

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Could feel as though they’re being chased or being yelled at and experience hallucinations. They could be hearing or seeing people that don’t exist, smelling things that you remember from your past, but them not being in the air, something touching you but there isn’t anything. The most common and known symptom is hearing voices that can be very loud or very quiet, but either way, they bother you. The voices can be males or females “talking” to you or people you’ve met in public, like at a store. They can talk in different languages or accents you’ve heard in real life and on television.
The person might feel like they're being chased, hurt or even abused by someone.

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Moving houses, living in a new and different place, losing a job, starting at a new school (elementary to university).

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Using (and abusing) drugs, drinking large amounts of alcohol, constantly being alone, and lastly brain complications such as tumors or internal bleeding.