This type of schizophrenia is by far the most common in the world. Victims of paranoid schizophrenia are people aged 30-35 years, and the first signs can be detected as early as adolescence. The fact is that the only factor stimulating the development of this disease is a violation of brain function. And what caused this violation - it is an individual matter.
Causes of development
The causes of paranoid schizophrenia may be a genetic predisposition to impaired brain function, as well as viruses that have affected the fetus in the womb. Stress during pregnancy or a viral illness - all this can (100% guarantee will not give any genetics and a psychiatrist) give impetus to the development of paranoid schizophrenia. Just like the reception of psychotropic drugs in adolescence and Alzheimer's disease in old age.
Course of the disease
The course of paranoid schizophrenia is not associated with the loss of mental and volitional abilities. Also, patients rarely suffer from borderline conditions - sudden and frequent changes in mood, acute aggression or apathy .
At the same time, the course of the disease is a sign for diagnosing chronic or episodic paranoia.
Symptoms
Paranoid schizophrenia can be hallucinatory and delusional. Symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, in the first place, are all sorts of hallucinations:
- hallucinations with threats;
- hallucinations of imperative nature;
- hallucinations with condemnation of those actions to which the "voice" previously appealed and inclined;
- hallucinations without verbal content - whistling, shouting, noise, rustle, laughter, howl.
Auditory hallucinations are the most common, however it does not protect against hallucinations of a different type:
- taste hallucinations - the taste of spoiled food, bitterness, acid, the taste of poison (the patient's complete confidence that he feels the taste of poison);
- olfactory - the smell of a corpse, rot, sperm, blood.
In addition, this increased sexual desire, visual hallucinations and a variety of sensations of a corporal nature. And, of course, nonsense:
- delirium of special destiny, greatness, high origin;
- delirium of persecution, pursuit, shadowing;
- delirium of jealousy;
- delusion of contamination of surrounding people.
Treatment
Treatment of paranoid schizophrenia is either hospitalized, or at home (depending on the degree) with a regular visit to the doctor and the delivery of tests. In the treatment, sedative medications are used that prevent another attack. Also, one can not do without psychotherapy, and in severe cases - electroshock therapy.
Patients with paranoid schizophrenia are strictly contraindicated even the smallest doses of alcohol, nicotine and drugs. Otherwise, they really "lose their heads": they can donate, sell, give away, throw away everything they have, because "they said so".