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Dear Kannan,
Thank you very much for taking interest in knowing what your relative is going through. This is a serious mental illness with frequent relapses. So it needs long term treatment to keep the illness under control. For some persons it is life long.
ECT is a temporary treatment to prevent suicidal thoughts and disturbing hallucinations (not illusions). If it is effective it needs to be adminstered at regular intervals as maintenance ECT. Of usually maintenance is done by Clozapi...more

More than 1 year of schizophrenic illness is called chronic schizophrenia and most likely requires life long medications. Kindly get this into your mind. It is like diabetes or hypertension, a derangement in bodily metabolism, so medications needs to be taken without break for reaching near normalcy in functioning. Taking medicines regularly will lead to poor symptom (mainly hallucinations and delusions) control, long term negative and cognitive symptoms and also residual symptoms which cannot b...more

Schizophrenia affects over 1% of the world s population and affects the way a person thinks, feels and behaves. In most cases, it is diagnosed when a person is between the ages of 16 to 25. This condition can be hereditary and is said to affect men more often than women. Schizophrenia is characterized by an inability to distinguish between real and imaginary which can lead to delusions, social withdrawal, hallucinations and other forms of social and occupational dysfunction.

Schizophren...more

Dear lybrate-user,
Please understand schizophrenia so that you can make your brother live with dignity. Unless you write in detail about the symptoms at present and the efforts you and your parents have taken so far, it is difficult to reply. Most often people living with schizophrenia don't know that they are sick. So they don't co operate with treatment. Once the treatment is discontinued for any reason (no improvement, side effect, sleeping too much, putting on weight, can not afford, it ...more

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. A person s mood and emotions can be altered drastically due to bipolar disorder, but they do not have more than one personality. Split personalities problem is more commonly seen in those with personality/dissociative disorders.

There are four basic types of bipolar disorder; all of them involve clear c...more

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. A person s mood and emotions can be altered drastically due to bipolar disorder, but they do not have more than one personality. Split personalities problem is more commonly seen in those with personality/dissociative disorders.

There are four basic types of bipolar disorder; all of them involve clear c...more

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. A person s mood and emotions can be altered drastically due to bipolar disorder, but they do not have more than one personality. Split personalities problem is more commonly seen in those with personality/dissociative disorders.

There are four basic types of bipolar disorder; all of them involve clear c...more

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. A person s mood and emotions can be altered drastically due to bipolar disorder, but they do not have more than one personality. Split personalities problem is more commonly seen in those with personality/dissociative disorders.

There are four basic types of bipolar disorder; all of them involve clear c...more

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. A person s mood and emotions can be altered drastically due to bipolar disorder, but they do not have more than one personality. Split personalities problem is more commonly seen in those with dissociative disorders.

There are four basic types of bipolar disorder; all of them involve clear changes in mo...more

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. A person s mood and emotions can be altered drastically due to bipolar disorder, but they do not have more than one personality. Split personalities problem is more commonly seen in those with personality/dissociative disorders.

There are four basic types of bipolar disorder; all of them involve clear c...more