Volume 1 Issue 4 October, 2011
❌ Individuals affected with Schizophrenia are dangerous & violent.
✅ Violence is uncommon among patients with Schizophrenia in comparison to general population. They tend to be
more distressed, frightened, confused & lack insight about their condition.
❌ Patients with Schizophrenia are mad.
✅ Patients with Schizophrenia are neither mad nor mentally retarded. In fact Prof John Nash who suffered from
Schizophrenia won Nobel Prize! Beautiful Mind is a movie made on true story of his life.
❌ Schizophrenia has no treatment.
✅ It can be treated with combination of antipsychotic medications, social support and evidence based therapy.
❌ Schizophrenia affected patients suffer lifelong without remission.
✅ Nearly one third have remission after an episode with treatment, another one third can carry out daily activities
with partial remission and only remaining one third need continuous comprehensive management.
❌ Schizophrenia can be managed with just counseling.
✅ Most disorders are best understood by Bio-Psycho-Social model & counseling or therapies are integral part of all
management protocol, which needs to be continued with necessary medication.
