4SharesThis is the fifth and last part of a series on psychosis. Read the first, second, third and fourth parts. So is the treatment of psychosis and schizophrenia a lost cause? Can we not offer any hope to people suffering from these illnesses or their families of living a normal life? Not at all. While […]
45SharesThe teaching and care of mental health and mental illness in our medical colleges and universities has always been abysmal with the result that not only are we graduating doctors with little or no awareness of mental illness, we are also leaving many fragile vulnerable medical students at the mercy of a system that offers […]
9SharesAli Madeeh Hashmi writes about the treatment of schizophrenia, what medicines are effective, the stages at which there is no treatment, and the side effects of these medicines. Treatment of Schizophrenia The treatment of schizophrenia, like most mental illnesses, falls along two lines into what we might call ‘medical’ treatment and ‘psychological’ treatment or alternatively, […]