Reframes

Awareness Reframe Assumption: Myths & Facts about “Schizophrenia”

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Volume 6 Issue 3 March 2016

❌Individuals affected with schizophrenia are dangerous and violent.

✅Violence is uncommon in patients with schizophrenia as compared to general population. They are actually more distressed and frightened about their condition.

❌Schizophrenia has got no treatment.

✅It can be treated with antipsychotic medications, family and social support and counseling.

❌Schizophrenics cannot do any good with their life.

✅If patients of schizophrenia are provided with better facility, they can do really good things in their life. One example being Dr. John Nash Nobel laureate in economics.

By Swapnil Tripathi, final year, MBBS student, AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan