Does anyone know how to prevent schizophrenia?
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What precisely causes schizophrenia is not known, but current research suggests a combination of hereditary and environmental factors. Fundamentally, however, it is a biologic problem, not one caused by poor parenting or a mentally unhealthy environment. People who have a parent or sibling with schizophrenia have about a 10% risk of developing the disorder, compared with a 1% risk among the general population. An identical twin whose co-twin has schizophrenia has about a 50% risk of developing schizophrenia. These statistics suggest a hereditary risk.
Other causes may include problems that occurred before, during, or after birth, such as influenza infection during the 2nd trimester of pregnancy, oxygen deprivation at birth, low birth weight, and mother-infant blood type incompatibility.
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I don't think you can prevent it. I think it's genetic, like Down Syndrome.
Unfortunatly it is well documented that schizophrenia is genetic and there is no way to way to prevent it, it is treatable in most cases though
You can not 'prevent' schizophrenia. It is a mental disorder someone has. If you can figure out what causes the changes to take place, you can help avoid causing the personality to change.
Do you ask me or the guy next to me? NO PREVENTION NO CURE SORRY WIFE HAS IT AND YES IT IS A TERRIBLE DISEASE GOOD LUCK GOD BLESS
You Can't
Don't mess with meth Rajesh. Methamphetamine use has been linked to schizophrenia.
I dont know , and neither do I!
You can't really prevent it unfortunately. The onset is usually in the mid to late 20s. There are many medications that can help with the symptoms of schizophrenia. I worked with individuals with schizophrenia for about 6 years in hospital and residential settings. Some studies show that some people may have a predisopsition to getting it. It is genetic and hereditary. There area also varying degrees of the illness. Some people can function fine and hold jobs while others are in need of 24hour care. Advances in medication have done wonders for people who in the past were not able to function in the community. People need to realize that anyone can get schizophrenia, that it IS NOT multiple personality, and that they are individuals with intelligence and deserve to be treated with dignity.
I am sorry you can not prevent it but you can treat it. From what i know schizophrenics have more dopamine receptors than the average Person so they actually end up with too much dopamine(opposite of parkinsons).
The best bet would be to take medication that blocks dopamine receptors. I think theres a family of drugs called phenothiazines that can do this.
Still always consult your physician before doing anything!
One more thing,methamphetamine is a dopamine receptor stimulator that has been known to induce scitzophrenia so dont use meth!
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Yes, it is a terrible disease, but I've never heard of a way to prevent it. (I'm not sure if you're talking about yourself, or in general, but I'm going to word my response as if it's your personal concern -- please don't be offended if it was just a hypothetical question.)
Fear of mental illness is not uncommon. I remember studying psychology in college and looking forward to reaching the age of 25 because I read a statistic in a textbook that said the likelihood of developing schizophrenia would decrease radically after that age. However, be careful not to dwell on it too much, as statistically speaking, the odds are very slim, and there's no sense stressing yourself out over something that will more than likely never happen.
That being said, I think awareness is probably the best form of prevention. It's important to be aware of family history, as it is with any disease for which there is evidence of a genetic predisposition. If this is a serious concern, it's also important to keep yourself healthy & well rested, and avoid drugs, alcohol, and stress as much as possible. I also think it's important to be really reflective & aware of your own thinking and to seek help if anything seems out of the ordinary.
Maybe one possibility would be to seek counseling from a psychologist to discuss your concerns about the disease. He or she could help you understand the early signs & reassure you about it. Then you would already have developed a relationship with a trusted professional if you notice anything going on that you really need to be concerned about. If you start to develop thinking, beliefs, behaviors or fears that you recognize as irrational or someone close to you thinks are irrational, seek help immediately & be persistent.
There isn't really a total cure, but the medications & therapies availabe now are much more effective and have far fewer side effects than the horror-story meds we've heard and read about in the past. It's frightening, but not completely hopeless. "I have now seen severe and chronic schizophrenics who had not responded to any previous treatment, including megavitamins, drugs, and electroconvulsive treatment, recover after a supervised fast." Abram Hoffer.
As early as 1972, Dr. Yuri Nikolayev, director of the fasting unit of the Moscow Psychiatric Institute, reported on the use of scientific, therapeutic fasting to successfully treat over 7000 patients, all suffering from neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and various neuroses, concluding: "The hunger treatment [as Soviet psychiatrists term fasting] gives the entire nervous system and the brain a rest. The body is also cleansed of poisons, and the tissues and the various glands are renovated. Resting of the brain forms the basis for the treatment of various neuropsychiatric disorders. Treatment through fasting is an internal operation, without a scalpel."
Throughout the past 50 years in Russia, therapeutic fasting has been found to be the most efficacious treatment for schizophrenia. As Allan Cott, M.D., noted in Fasting: The Ultimate Diet, on pp. 34-35: "Seventy percent of those treated by fasting improved so remarkably that they were able to resume an active life." About Doctor Nikolayev, who now has over 30 years' experience fasting over 10,000 patients, fellow psychiatrist Doctor Cott writes, p. 34: "An epochal breakthrough in the treatment of schizophrenia came when Doctor Nikolayev discovered that his patients responded to fasting treatment after all other forms of therapy had failed."
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Schizophrenics & 6-Hydroxyskatole
Eleven different research laboratories on bowel toxins have reported that schizophrenics have five times more 6-hydroxyskatole in their urine than normal people (a skatole breakdown product from bacterial putrefaction). These findings correlate with the findings of Russian researchers, who, according to Dr. Allen Cott in Fasting as a Way of Life, have had excellent success using water fasts to cure 65% of the so-called "incurable schizophrenics." It is interesting to note that one of the main causes of relapse for these "incurables" was a return to high-protein, flesh food intake, which is a diet that stimulates bacterial putrefaction and intestinal toxemia.
Intestinal toxemia not only has been associated with severe mental symptoms such as psychosis, but with a variety of mental imbalances.
As early as 1917, Drs. Satterlee and Eldridge presented 518 cases at an American Medical Association conference that had mental symptoms which were cured by removing the intestinal toxemia. They reported symptoms of intestinal toxemia which are familiar to many people: mental sluggishness, dullness, and stupidity; loss of concentration and/or memory; mental incoordination, irritability, lack of confidence, and excessive and useless worry; exaggerated introspection, hypochondrias, and phobias; depression and melancholy; obsessions and delusions; and hallucinations, suicidal tendencies, delirium, and stupor. Senility symptoms are also common with intestinal toxemia.
Fasting is one of the best and quickest treatments for bowel toxicity. I have found in my research that the urinary indican was "markedly decreased" even after a seven-day fast. Phenols, another class of bowel toxins, have also been decreased significantly by fasting. The fasting process allows the bowels to rest and the inflammation to subside. If there are no proteins on which to feed, the putrefactive bacteria will also diminish.
For those who do not want to fast, excluding surgical intervention, a low-protein diet (20-30 grams of protein per day), along with a high-complex-carbohydrate, 80% rawfood diet, is a slower but effective cure. When connected with periodic fasting, it is even more powerful. Fats should be kept to a minimum, as heated fats especially intensify the process of intestinal toxemia. Learning to eat in a way that causes no strain on the digestive system is extremely important. This means eating in a manner in which one rises from the table feeling almost as light as when one sits down. If we eat too much or too late, there is incomplete digestion and the process of putrefaction is reinforced. Adding lactobacillus acidophilus (normal large intestine bacteria) culture to the system helps to re-populate the small and large intestine with healthy bacteria, therefore diminishing putrefactive (abnormal) bacteria. Exercise also helps to stimulate the digestive system. Although many will respond to these basic aids to digestion, in the short run one may need some digestive enzymes and/or digestion-stimulating herbs to help rest and rebuild the digestive power that has been weakened after long years of abuse.
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