Balaji`s BLOG

  Schizophrenia:  Schizophrenia is a psychological syndrome. It is a syndrome because it has different symptoms for different patients.                                     Schizo = split                                     phrenic = mind. Splitting of mind, not split personality disorder. It affects the men of late teens or early twenties and women of late twenties or early thirties.   Symptoms: There are three types of symptoms for schizophrenia mentioned in follow: 1.      Positive symptoms 2.      Negative symptoms 3.      Cognitive symptoms   1. Positive symptoms: ·        Delusion:                                                   Delusions are a false belief that patients might feel very strongly about it, so much so they won't change their minds, even if you gave them evidence against it. Some people believe in socio myth. Every human has some delusions. Some people believe in ghosts that also delusion. ·        Hallucination:                  

                                                   We should take care of ourselves while entering an Intensive Care Unit. I  had experience with the ICU ward. See, while entering we should take a few hygienic measures. Now we are so hygiene because of the pandemic situation but before this, we don't even know the spelling of it. I saw many patients in there. The ard is very silent, the only sound we hear is the beep sound from the medical devices. It is depressing for being a visitor, then just think about the patients there.                                       Most people have a fear of hospitals. We always avoid hospitals. But everyone will be admitted to a hospital at some point. Being a  patient in the ICU is devastating. Always silent and we don't have anybody as a companion. Now in this pandemic situation, many people going through this phase. Loneliness and Depression are always there in an ICU.  ICU is created to save people I agree that, but psychology will take ove