Volume 5 Issue 7 July 2015
❌Patients with schizophrenia are violent.
✅Studies indicate that patients of schizophrenia are no more violent than normal individuals. People with schizophrenia are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.
❌Patient with schizophrenia can never recover.
✅For a majority if schizophrenia is diagnosed quickly and treated aggressively there is a good prognosis for being able to live comfortably in society.
❌Schizophrenia treatment requires hospitalization.
✅Most of the times hospitalization is not required except in case of acute exacerbations in which self-harm or harm to others is suspected.
❌Patient with schizophrenia can’t do anything.
✅Patients have specific interests and potentials in different areas. A famous example is of great Mathematician John Nash who won a Nobel Prize in Economics after recovering from schizophrenia.
By Swapnil Tripathi, final year, MBBS student, AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
