Schizophrenia is an extreme challenge and battle someone can grow through, but not only does it affect them, but their family as well. This is a website that allows the people affected and diagnosed to talk to other people who are going through the same thing as them. Schizophrenia.com is based on support groups and you can find one anywhere around the world, from USA to Japan or Australia, and many places in Europe.

A person is able to contact this support service by going to a website provided on the main page of Schizophrenia.com, as you look at what country you’re from and many links come up that you can access. An example of a website from Australia is https://www.sane.org/get-help. On here there are helplines, group chats, and many support services provided for someone diagnosed with schizophrenia or any mental illness.

Headspace a support network aimed mainly at helping and working with youth, or young people diagnosed with mental illness. One being schizophrenia, this website is fantastic for young people to access as you can gain information on it from social media sites such as Facebook, twitter, Instagram and YouTube. It is also has many opportunities for anyone interested in helping or the families that are going through the experience of a mental illness as someone they love may have been diagnosed.

You are able to contact this support network by simply searching for a centre online, and finding the nearest one, closest to you. Headspace centres are based all over Australia, mostly in Victoria and NSW. Another option is to ‘talk to someone’. There is an option that allows you to chat online with anyone that can help, you can either chat on a phone call or via email.

1)Medications

·         First-generation antipsychotics

-          Chlorpromazine

-          Fluphenazine

-          Haloperidol

-          Perphenazine

Although they’re a treatment, these antipsychotics are significant to sever neurological side effects. 

-          Second-generation antipsychotics

-          Aripiprazole (Abilify), Asenapine (Saphris), Brexpiprazole (Rexulti), Cariprazine Clozapine (Clozari),Iloperidone (Fanapt),Lurasidone (Latuda), Olanzapine (Zyprexa), Paliperidone (Invega), Quetiapine (Seroquel), Risperidone (Risperdal),Ziprasidone (Geodon)

The newer generation of antipsychotics, preferred or recommended more often as they don’t have such serious side effects as the first generation. It also is excellent that there is a wider range of antipsychotics.

·         Rehab therapy

·         Family therapy

·         Group therapy

·         Behaviour therapy