A child from a mother with schizophrenia. Who is a “schizophrenogenic mother”, or what does overwhelming overprotection lead to? International Classification of Diseases

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Permanent guardianship and demonstrative hyper-care of the mother can lead to sad consequences, up to the child's schizophrenia and his suicide. Such a mother sincerely wants the child to be happy, but makes him unhappy. I want to understand why ordinary, completely healthy women become schizophrenogenic mothers and begin to pose a danger to their beloved child?

Where do these mothers come from?

It seems to me that a hyper "caring" (schizophrenogenic) mother actually loves not so much the child as herself in him, and her overprotectiveness is an indicator of her own problems.

What pushes a woman to sacrificial and blind love. More precisely, not on, but on demonstration performances, sublimation, compensation and unconscious psychotherapy, in which a woman is not recognized for anything.

Where do women come from who see no other meaning in their lives than caring for a child? Do you think they fall from the sky? No. They are among us, just like us. With the same disadvantages and advantages. It can be said that to some extent we all sometimes hide behind a child, as a screen, convenient for hiding our own problems. This is a shield with which you can cover up your laziness, your inactivity, your unhappy personal life, your failure, your stupidity, your unwillingness to take responsibility for your own failures.

There are at least three reasons for this "malaise":

The main reason is the fear of loneliness. If we mean by loneliness the feeling of “non-presence in the world” (uselessness), the loss of the meaning of existence and values, then mother’s overprotection is an escape from such a state.

Diffidence. A woman proves her worth because she is not self-confident. With equal partners in the society of people, she cannot reach the top. She is an inconspicuous gray mouse. And when a child appears who considers her almost a god, she reaches an unprecedented height, almost on a pedestal. This consoles her chronically ill ego.

Another reason is perfectionism, to do everything better than anyone else, to be on top. And not with a hint of “be better than yesterday”, but with a hint of “be the best”. In principle, perfectionism also comes from self-doubt, it is a means of proving one's significance, peculiarity, and perfection. There is no limit to perfection, as you know, and insanity, respectively, too.

... Since they were called that, we will follow this term, constantly remembering that such a mother is dangerous for the baby and distorts the fate of an adult. To some extent, she also falls into the risk zone, because such manifestations signal her psychological problems.

When a child turns into a means of solving parental problems, write wasted! The fate of this child, his character, his future and present are placed on the altar of parental delusions and phobias. Parents think that the child is their property and, having given birth to him, having received the right to raise him, they can dispose of his fate with impunity, as if he were a thing, not a person.

Let's follow how gradually from an ordinary woman, like from a cocoon of fears, a fancifully painted butterfly of a schizophrenic mother crawls out.

Pregnancy as a cross and a finest hour

Imagine a person who is insecure or unable to find his place in life. Having no interests, a favorite thing, love, who does not understand the meaning of his existence, that is, a completely confused, dependent unit. And suddenly, what happiness! And now, from an empty place, she suddenly turns into a significant being. Moreover, this illusion of significance begins already when the “worm has just started” inside. Virgin Mary, doomed to sacred torment! Dust particles are blown off her, all her whims are fulfilled. Well, how! She is pregnant! And pregnant women should not be denied. Oh, and this loser comes off on others and her own husband. “I want strawberries in January and watermelons in May! I want everything! Take it out and lay it down!"

Of course, these whims can be explained by hormonal changes, mental instability, fear, self-doubt, in their attractiveness, the need to make sure that nothing happens to her and the child, that she is still loved and will be taken care of. That is, this is a kind of protective reaction of the body to stress in the form of uncertainty after pregnancy. And that's okay. Moreover, such relapses of whims often happen to women who doubt that they are loved and taken care of. During pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, a woman is most vulnerable. And she really needs attention and care.

But let's separate the flies from the cutlets. There are simply pathological capricious people who take out everyone's brains, and then they watch from the sidelines and rate the knocked down relatives who were sent for a star from the sky. You have to be more modest, future mothers!

Of course, I am exaggerating, but there is something in every woman who considers pregnancy not a natural state, but almost a feat or the greatest victory in life. And makes everyone jump around him. But that's more! The most interesting thing begins after the birth of a child, when a woman is no longer looked at like a sick cow.

The child is my best work

The child was born. The rule "pregnant women are not denied" no longer applies. For the first time, you have to feel like who you really are, or rather, who you should be in this situation: a person who has a child and is responsible for him, until this child becomes an independent person.

And again, the mother comes off to the fullest! And most of all on the one who should be protected and loved. In general, a child is a great way to show the world that you exist and are worth something. Many mothers say so: “This is my best work!” Yes, she brought him into the world. But that's where her merit ends. Then his own life begins.

When a woman says that a child is her work, she is, to put it mildly, plagiarizing. Because, by and large, it was not she who created the child, but God, nature. She just carried and gave birth. Merit, of course. But it is very similar to a simple physiological process.

However, you must admit, it is so tempting to consider yourself a creator... This unleashes the fantasy, makes you believe that you are the creator and can sculpt a newborn creature in your own image and likeness. Many mothers go out of their way, succeeding in sculpture and architecture. Hide everyone! Their child turns into an experimental platform for the production of the most brilliant musician, artist, dancer, athlete, etc. and so on. Moms are preparing a shelf for victory cups and a wall for hanging certificates and diplomas for their beloved. And the child just wants to read a fairy tale with them. Such pygmalion mothers are unable to understand that they are only temporary intermediaries between God and a newly born person and perform only the role of a child's guide to the world. But not a creator.

No, how can one come to terms with this who considers the child her best work. She creates it tirelessly from morning to evening, from the cradle to her own death, not letting go of herself a single step and not allowing the real God, circumstances, nature, life to participate in the process of creating a personality.

That is, strictly speaking, the very message “this is my best work”, “I must make a man out of it” is already erroneous from the very beginning. The child is already human! Get it right and let it open! Help him understand who he is. Don't interfere! And do not confuse the sinful with the righteous, and your own with someone else's. In the end, your task on earth is not to make a person out of someone, but to become a Human yourself.

There are wise women who understand that a child is an independent being that can teach her a lot. They know or feel that the child has some mysterious knowledge and understanding that his mother has already lost in her adult life. And between mother and child, a unique and very useful relationship is established for both parties. But this, unfortunately, happens infrequently.

Mommy in the life of an adult uncle or aunt

thinks that its main task is to protect, stop, direct, create, change, correct, control, etc. In short, she assumes the functions of a leader and becomes God for the child for the rest of his life. What arrogance!

And completely sincere. Elderly mothers of aged children correctly believe that a mother will always be a mother, but in the sense that she must wipe her son's nose until he (or herself) plays catch. They don't understand how dangerous and wrong the game is.

Yes, mother formally protects and guides. On the other hand, she dooms both the adult child and herself to a constant presence in his life, continuous control, guardianship. Ultimately, when a child becomes an adult, he, accustomed to guidance, is incapable of independent living. And, in particular, to take care of the mother when she herself needs help. In taking care of him, she did not teach him to take care of her. Often such a grown-up offspring rents an aged and sick mother to the state.

She did not give him the opportunity to try himself as an independent unit of the universe. I took everything upon myself, I was responsible for everything. And she taught him that everything and always for him will be done by someone. Someone will decide for him, tell him, make happiness, provide materially. So a person becomes dependent on circumstances and people. He always has someone to blame. At the same time, he is looking for in life not a friend, not a partner, not a loved one, but someone who would make him happy, arrange a comfortable life, ensure stability, etc.

Her child is not inoculated with love, but with fear, she infected him with the virus of loneliness. It's like a double-edged sword, such a mother is also doomed to loneliness in old age. \

What to do and how not to become such a mother?

How to find a middle ground between hyper-custody and just taking care of a child? Between responsibility for him and education of his independence? Between your own and someone else's life?

The only way is to search! Search

middle;
own history;
Love;
friendship
your calling;
purpose;
interests;
hobby;
business of a lifetime.

And let your child do the same! Live your life.

Otherwise, until old age, he will be forced to fight and in extreme conditions, thanks to such a mother, at the cost of sweat and blood, divorces and conflicts, losses and extreme sports, to achieve freedom of choice. Not everyone can stand it. Some break. Others go with the flow, obey their mother's dictates and essentially ruin their lives. Do you want it?

Schizophrenia- a disease of the psyche, which is accompanied by affective behavior, a violation of perception, thinking problems and unstable reactions of the nervous system. It is extremely important to understand that schizophrenia is not dementia, but a violation of the psyche, a gap in the stability and integrity of consciousness, which leads to a violation of thinking. People with schizophrenia are often not capable of a full social life, have problems with adaptation and when communicating with people around them. One of the reasons why the disease progresses and develops is heredity.

Heredity

Neurobiology is developing more and more every year, and it is this science that can answer the question of interest to many - is schizophrenia inherited or not?

Scientists delved into the problem of finding a connection between relatives and a child with schizophrenia, but the reliability of the results is quite low due to the inclusion of other genetic factors, as well as the environment of influence. There are no unequivocal statements that the transmission of schizophrenia by inheritance has every reason. Just as unreliable would be the assertion that all people suffering from this disease acquired the disease solely due to brain injuries.

The question is answered by the head doctor of the clinic

Is schizophrenia inherited from the father?

If a girl becomes pregnant from a man who suffers from schizophrenia, then the following scenario is possible: the father will pass on the abnormal chromosome to all daughters who will be carriers. The father will pass on all healthy chromosomes to his sons, who will be absolutely healthy and will not pass on the gene to their offspring. Pregnancy can have four developments if the mother is a carrier: a girl without a disease, a healthy boy, a carrier girl, or a schizophrenic boy will be born. Accordingly, the risk is 25% and the disease can be transmitted to every fourth child. Girls can inherit the disease extremely rarely: if the mother is a carrier and the father has schizophrenia. Without these conditions, the chance that the disease will be transmitted is very small.

Heredity alone cannot influence the development of the disease, since a whole range of factors influence this: from a psychological point of view, biological, environmental stress and genetics. For example, if a person inherited schizophrenia from his father, this does not mean that the probability of manifestation is 100%, since other factors play a decisive role. A direct connection has not been proven by scientists, but there are documented studies that show that twins whose mother or father is sick with schizophrenia have a higher predisposition to developing a mental illness. But the disease of the parents will manifest itself in the offspring only with the simultaneous influence of factors that adversely affect the child, but are favorable for the progress of the disease.

Is schizophrenia inherited from the mother?

Researchers tend to believe that disposition can be transmitted not only in the form of schizophrenia, but also in other mental disorders, which can give impetus to the progress of schizophrenia. Gene studies have shown that schizophrenia is inherited from the mother or father due to mutations that are mostly random.

The mother of the child can pass on to him a tendency to illness during pregnancy. The embryo in the womb is susceptible to infectious colds of the mother. The fetus is highly likely to get schizophrenia if it has experienced such a disease. Presumably, the time of year can also affect the disease: most often, schizophrenia is confirmed when diagnosed in children born in spring and winter, when the mother's body is most weakened and influenza is more common.

Is there a risk of heredity

• 46% chance that the child will get sick if the grandparents had schizophrenia, or one of the parents.
• 48% provided that one of the fraternal twins is sick.
• 6% if one close relative is ill.
• only 2% - sick uncle and aunt, as well as cousins.

Signs of schizophrenia

Research can identify potentially mutating genes or the absence of them. It is these genes that are the first cause that can increase the chance of the disease. There are roughly three types of symptoms by which psychiatrists can determine if a person is sick:

• Disorders of attention, thinking, and perception are cognitive.
• Manifestations in the form of hallucinations, delusional thoughts, which are presented as brilliant.
• Apathy, complete lack of desire to do anything, lack of motivation and will.

Schizophrenics do not have a clear organization and coherence of speech and thinking, it may seem to the patient that he hears voices that are not in reality. There are difficulties in social life and communication with other people. The disease is accompanied by a loss of all interest in life and events, and sometimes a sharp excitement may appear, or a schizophrenic may freeze for a long time in an unusual and unnatural position. Signs can be so ambiguous that they must be observed for at least a month.

Treatment

If the disease has already manifested itself, then it is necessary to know the measures that are recommended to be taken so that the situation does not worsen, and the disease does not progress very quickly. So far, there is no definite one medicine that can cure schizophrenia once and for all, but the symptoms can be weakened, thereby making life easier for the patient and his relatives. There are several methods:

Medicines. The patient is prescribed drugs - antipsychotics, which can change biological processes for a while. Along with this, drugs are used to stabilize the mood, and the patient's behavior is corrected. It is worth remembering that the more effective the drugs, the greater the risk of complications.

Psychotherapy. Often the methods of a psychotherapist can muffle usually inappropriate behavior, during the sessions the patient learns the mode of life, so that a person understands how society works and it is easier for him to adapt and socialize.

The subject of the conversation will be the insidious disease of schizophrenia. What should be alerted in the behavior of a loved one, because this is not such a rare mental illness that is confused with ordinary neuroses or depression.

When the disease progresses, it becomes clear that we are talking about a serious mental disorder that requires medical intervention. How schizophrenia manifests itself in the fairer sex and how the disease affects a woman's life.

Description of the disease: is schizophrenia treatable

Schizophrenia ("premature dementia") is an incurable disease. Medicine has not been able to find a cure that can cure such a disorder. Basically, the reasons are associated with a small study of pathology.

Despite the fact that neurobiologists have made significant progress in their research activities, the mechanisms for the development of schizophrenia are still unknown.

International Classification of Diseases

According to ICD-10, group F20 includes schizotypal and delusional disorders, however, the description of the disease includes a note that schizophrenia is more common than others. Often, the disease is confused with the syndrome of "splitting" personality, these are completely different pathological conditions.

During clinical DNA studies, geneticists have discovered "damaged" genes, which are responsible for the likelihood of developing schizophrenia. Here, experts received an answer to the question - is the pathology inherited - yes, there is a risk of getting a similar gene from relatives.

In the world, 1 person out of 100 suffers from such a mental disorder, of one form or another. The manifestation of the disease in women has some features, unlike men, the first symptoms in them appear in the late period. If in the representatives of the stronger sex the disease progresses by the age of 18, then in women, alarming signs appear on average by the age of 25. Much less often, doctors encounter cases of childhood and senile schizophrenia.

There are the following types of early signs of a mental disorder that manifest in women.

Positive. The main signs are sudden mood swings, visions, delirium, obsessive thoughts. The woman is nervous, she can shed tears or laugh for no apparent reason.

Negative. Communication with society is complicated, the patient is more often in apathy, ceases to follow her appearance, becomes sloppy. Work and previous hobbies do not arouse interest - this is a feature of the initial stage of the disease in women.

Excessive nervousness may not be noticed by others or attributed to various personal and professional troubles. More attracts a change in appearance for the worse.

Is it inherited?

Neurobiologists, after long, laborious studies, managed to slightly clarify the picture of the origin of the disease - there are both acquired forms of the disorder and those inherited.

Geneticists have figured out how parents pass on a damaged chromosome to their children.

paternal inheritance. In a couple where one parent, namely, the father suffers from schizophrenia, all female children will have an abnormal chromosome. The sons will get healthy genes, and the chain of transmission will be interrupted.

Maternal inheritance (if mother is a carrier). In this case, the risks are the same and amount to 25%. With equal probability, healthy children of both sexes, girls who are carriers and boys suffering from schizophrenia, can be born.

In rare cases, girls inherit the disease if the mother has the gene and the father has schizophrenia. In addition, the disease can be transmitted from other relatives - grandparents, aunts, uncles, but in this case the risks are much lower. In addition, the presence of a chromosome is not a 100% factor that a person will develop pathology.

In the Russian Federation, it is legally established that if there are grounds for a patient with mental disabilities, medical assistance should be provided.

There is a certain order according to which the patient undergoes a mental examination. In some cases, a mandatory procedure is a psychiatric examination - a person undergoes a test aimed at detecting mental health disorders.

Patients suffering from mental disorders are provided with treatment and medical rehabilitation. They are assigned diagnostics and preventive measures are provided.

All this is provided for by the Federal Law of November 25, 23, No. 317-FZ “On Psychiatric Care and Guarantees of the Rights of Citizens in its Provision”. According to legislative regulations, the state guarantees the provision of psychiatric care to people suffering from diseases in this area, which is based on the principles of legality, humanity, with the obligatory observance of civil and human rights.

Symptoms and signs of schizophrenia in women

With regard to manifestations in women, schizophrenia causes the same symptoms and signs as in men. Some scientists believe that if a person sees dreams in bright colors at night, then this is one of the prerequisites for subsequent mental disorders.

However, doctors are rather skeptical of such opinions. Yet they have to deal with more vivid manifestations of the disease.

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For example, in teenage schizophrenia, girls may experience outbursts of aggression, isolation, and they perceive the absence of fans as the worst possible event. In women suffering from schizophrenia, there are also changes in behavior, experts identify 7 main symptoms of the disease.

The appearance of delusional thoughts (other people's voices begin to sound in the head). The patient constantly repeats words devoid of meaning. It seems to a woman that outsiders interfere in her life, there is no interest in success and career growth. The person closes in on himself, looks sloppy.

A number of cognitive disorders are observed - a woman does not grasp causal relationships, has difficulty in perceiving new information. The mood changes dramatically, the patient is often depressed, there is a suicidal tendency. The intensity of symptoms and their combination depends on the stage of the pathological condition.

Stages of schizophrenia

Experts distinguish 3 stages of the pathological process, because. the disease can proceed in different ways, it is not always possible to clearly distinguish them.

Initial stage. At this stage, the signs of mental disorders are almost invisible, others think that the woman is stressed, depressed, or just tired.

It is worth thinking about mental health if a person cannot make out his handwriting, forgets to eat and at the same time does not feel hungry, forgets to change clothes and does not feel joy from things that previously caused delight.

Expanded stage. Symptoms become more obvious and the diagnosis of pathology is not difficult. The patient begins to rave, often there are hallucinations in the form of visual images or other people's voices.

Defect stage. Accompanied by severe irreversible mental disorders. The cognitive sphere is disturbed, the changes concern not only behavior, but also the personality itself. This scheme can be called approximate, because. it is almost impossible to predict the development of the disease. More often than other signs, patients have delusions, visual and auditory hallucinations.

Different types of schizophrenia and their features

There is a separate classification of schizophrenia, which distinguishes different types of mental disorders, united under one name and having similar, but not identical, symptoms.

Sluggish schizophrenia (latent). A patient suffering from this type of mental disorder is not dangerous to others, the woman does not show aggression and does not behave destructively. Most often, latent schizophrenia does not progress to a more severe, dangerous form of the disease.

With this pathology, the patient has bouts of inappropriate behavior. She becomes unreasonably jealous. Stops being interested in everyday problems. Loses relationship with children.

paranoid schizophrenia. A form of illness in which most of the signs of mental disorders are present. Patients feel as if they are being followed. They deny reality in every possible way, feeling comfortable and safe only inside their “own” little world.

Imagination works "to its fullest", a person often sees vivid images, taking them for reality. Hears voices in his head.

The violation also applies to the speech apparatus - there is a slight dysfunction, when talking, a person can confuse words, his statements become illogical, meaningless.

senile schizophrenia. As already noted, in this form, the disorder is less common than others, and the age-related disease has a number of features. Older women experience the following symptoms.

Partial loss of memories, forgetfulness of recent events against the backdrop of vivid, accurate memories of times long gone. The dream is disturbed, she comes up with crazy stories that didn’t really exist - she says that she was robbed, beaten, offended by her relatives. The disorder negatively affects mental abilities - intelligence decreases, causal relationships are lost.

Manic schizophrenia. In modern psychiatric practice, this condition has been singled out as a separate disease - manic-depressive syndrome. With its development, the behavior of a woman undergoes drastic changes, she begins to act violently, too actively, then becomes lethargic, tired, apathetic to what is happening.

The syndrome provokes sudden mood swings, fear of persecution. The patient sees the world either in black or pink colors, often she begins to literally gush with "brilliant" ideas. A woman performs certain actions or rituals.

Alcoholic schizophrenia. Female alcoholism is more insidious, representatives of the weaker sex quickly become addicted, with all the ensuing consequences, incl. development of mental disorders.

In alcoholic schizophrenia, the patient is in an anxious state. The disease can manifest itself in the form of psychosis - delirium tremens, delusional psychosis or hallucinosis. The condition is often accompanied by aggressive behavior and fever.

neurosis-like schizophrenia. Among other forms of mental disorder, this type of pathology has the most positive forecasts for normalizing the health of this area. Among the main symptoms of a violation in women, one can note dissatisfaction with their own external data, leading to attempts to disfigure themselves.

A woman cannot get rid of obsessive fears, feelings of loneliness, she behaves aggressively, or withdraws into herself. Often hysterical antics in public, the use of pretentious techniques.

Fur-like or paroxysmal-progredient schizophrenia. There are signs characteristic of the continuous and periodic form of the disease. With the paranoid type, the woman becomes withdrawn, gloomy, alert, while the patient may feel that she is being pursued.

After that, an exacerbation occurs with pictures of sensual delirium and confusion, the “double syndrome”, the delirium of intermetamorphosis, manifests itself. In some cases, attacks of paranoid syndrome develop with a depressive or manic effect.

hebephrenic syndrome. Schizophrenia, in which patients have gymnastic contractions of the facial muscles, they seem to grimace. Women begin to perform actions that do not have a motive, they cannot be called impulsive, pathological motives are also absent.

A woman suffering from hebephrenic schizophrenia laughs loudly, with anguish, makes faces, can jump on furniture, roll on the floor and pester others. Infantile behavior, not without reason, the pathology was named after Hebe, the ancient Greek goddess of youth.

postpartum schizophrenia. Pregnancy and childbirth are stressful for the female body, they affect both the physical and mental state of the woman in labor. By themselves, these events are not the root cause of the disorder, they only act as a trigger.

What should be alarming in the behavior of a young mother:

1. if she makes obsessive movements;
2. often irritated, shows aggression;
3. gives out crazy ideas;
4. becomes less emotional;
5. loses its former interests.

Then it's time to sound the alarm, perhaps we are talking about postpartum mental disorder.

Causes of schizophrenia in women

If we argue about the transfer of the gene for mental illness from mother to child, then this is possible. The probability of such a result is on average 14%. Being a carrier, a woman may not have schizophrenia herself, but at the same time pass on the “wrong” gene to the next generations.

What leads to the development of pathology, what factors induce mental disorders.

Heredity. Having received such a "gift", a person can get schizophrenia in childhood or older. In the first case, there are high risks that the child will degrade and stop developing. Diseases of infectious or viral origin that the expectant mother suffers during pregnancy.

Failure in the functions of neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are responsible for communicating the brain with other body systems. Disorders manifest themselves in adolescence, when hormonal changes occur.

Upbringing. When a child is abandoned, no one needs, grows up in a family where one or both parents have mental disorders, the chances are high that he will find symptoms of schizophrenia in himself.

Prolonged and frequent stress. A despot boss, lack of a family, misunderstanding on the part of her own children, financial difficulties, frequent scandals at home - all this can cause obsessive thoughts in a woman.

Having bad habits. Acquired mental disorder often occurs on the background of drug or alcohol addiction, and in women this occurs more often than in men.

Schizophrenia: diagnosis and treatment methods

Before making a diagnosis, the doctor collects an anamnesis, interviews both the patient and his friends and relatives. There are certain rules that are defined by the ICD-10, a person is recognized as a schizophrenic if at least one rank I criterion and 2 or more rank II criteria are found.

Symptoms related to rank I: the presence of auditory hallucinations, sensations of one's own thoughts, the appearance of delusional ideas and perceptions. Rank II symptoms: catatonic syndrome, intermittent thoughts, hallucinations occur constantly, behavioral disorders and a number of negative signs are observed.

In order for a person to be recognized as having schizophrenia, such symptoms must be observed for at least 4 weeks.

During diagnostic measures, the doctor assesses the emotional state of the patient, finds out his psychological factor and other parameters. For these purposes, special tests are carried out, assessment scales are used - Luscher, Leary, the Minnesota multidimensional personality questionnaire, etc.

How to treat schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a disease that cannot be completely cured, so therapy aims to result in a stable, long-term remission. Treatment is complex, it includes the following: the appointment of medications, biological therapy and social adaptation.

Not all patients diagnosed with mental illness are hospitalized. For this, there must be certain indications: the presence of suicidal behavior or inclination, fasting, in which the patient loses 1/5 of the total weight, a manifestation of aggression, which is dangerous for the woman herself and others, the presence of hallucinations.

Also, an increase in the mental and motor activity of the patient is detected, if the woman has signs of a mental illness, considers herself healthy.

With such a disease, a complex of drugs from the groups of neuroleptics, antidepressants, nootropic drugs, mood stabilizers and psychostimulants is prescribed.

A special role in drug therapy is played by antipsychotics, which have the following effects: they reduce or completely eliminate aggression, relieve the patient of delusional, obsessive ideas, hallucinations, normalize behavior and general condition, reduce or completely eliminate catatonia.

Sequence of treatment

The first 6 months of treatment is aimed at stopping the pathological signs of a mental disorder. Then, through therapy, a stable remission is formed up to 1 year. After discharge, the patient is prescribed special drugs that are taken for prevention, which helps to avoid serious complications.

Otherwise, with an exacerbation of the disease, it will be much more difficult to achieve remission, sometimes it becomes an impossible task.

Biological therapeutic methods include the following activities:

1. electro-convulsive therapy;
2. insulin shock therapy;
3. phototherapy;
4. detoxification procedures;
5. carrying out psychosurgical operations;
6. unloading and dietary therapy.

An important therapeutic aspect is the use of social therapy methods. Sessions of systematic mental influence on the patient's consciousness are prescribed, attention is paid to social adaptation and rehabilitation. Therapy will then be successful if the doctor can establish close contact with the patient.

What are the prognoses for a diagnosis of schizophrenia?

As already noted, schizophrenia is an incurable disease. If the patient seeks medical help in a timely manner, undergoes treatment, subsequent rehabilitation, and takes prescribed preventive drugs, then there is every chance for the development of a long-term, stable remission.

After therapy, the woman returns to her former life, recovery practically occurs. A similar result can be achieved in 30% of patients with this disease.

With subsequent preventive diagnostics, they do not reveal mental disorders that provoke maladaptation.

There are also less rosy prospects. In 30% of people with schizophrenia, the disorder becomes chronic. In this case, the disease is accompanied by frequent exacerbations, the condition is often aggravated, patients lose their ability to work, and become socially maladapted.

The state of the remaining part of the patients, approximately 1/3 of the total number, is defined as intermediate (they have moderate impairments, exacerbations develop periodically).

Most patients manage to cope with the disease with some effort, they restore most of the skills. However, regardless of the state and form of the disorder, all patients need to take medications and create favorable conditions.

In addition, experts note the importance of the active position of the patient herself in therapy. It is desirable that a woman can independently notice the first "alarm bells", seek medical help or start therapy with drugs prescribed by the attending physician.

Gradually, the patient becomes more self-confident, she is able to take the initiative, solve financial problems and cope with domestic issues. Most importantly, the ability to communicate with other people returns to her.

Where to get a job with a diagnosis of schizophrenia

There are no universal recommendations according to which the employment of people suffering from mental disorders takes place. Some women benefit from creative activity, others manage to succeed in the field of science, for others, physical work is ideal.

There are a number of general warnings about working with schizophrenia. Some activities, conditions and harmfulness can adversely affect the psyche of a sick worker.

Doctors strongly advise avoiding work that disrupts cyclic jet lag, especially if it involves regular night shifts. If a person works when his body needs sleep, this can cause an exacerbation of the disorder.

It is important to avoid work that is associated with constant stressful situations or makes employees often be in a state of psycho-emotional stress. If a worker with schizophrenia is subjected to increased demands, conflicts and scandals arise from time to time, this can cause an increase in symptoms or new signs of the disease.

Diagnosis - schizophrenia forbids a person to contact with any kind of weapon. Therefore, he will not be hired where it is required (to obtain a permit to carry weapons, you must confirm your own mental health).

All types of activities in which a person or those around him are in danger are undesirable in schizophrenia. Work must be abandoned if it was she who caused the development of a mental disorder, otherwise the symptoms will not only persist, but will also progress.

Do they give disability in the diagnosis of schizophrenia

When this diagnosis is approved, the patient undergoes a medical and social examination, taking into account the history of the disease, the available characteristics, and the results of the examination. The commission determines the degree of disability.

III degree. Patients are not able to perform self-service activities, the pathology proceeds without improvement, the symptoms of the disorder are constantly present. Often a similar degree is established for patients suffering from a catatonic form of the disorder.

In this case, it is estimated how far they are divorced from reality, violations in thinking alone are not enough. If the commission approves the presence of a third degree of restriction, then the patient is assigned to the first group of disability.

II degree. A more common condition, accompanied by a malignant course of the disease, frequent hospitalizations and a decrease in the quality and duration of remissions. With a similar course of schizophrenia, the patient is often given a second group of disability.

I degree. Exacerbations of the disorder, accompanied by seizures, are rare. The disease does not have intense manifestations. In this situation, the patient remains able to work, but there are a number of limitations. Similar data refer to the third group of disability.

If during the examination the patient is denied assignment of any group, and the patient himself or his relatives consider the decision to be incorrect, then they have the opportunity to apply to the judicial authorities or file a complaint with the central bureau of medical and social expertise.

In most cases, such measures will lead to the appointment of a second examination, which is carried out in another place.

Based on its results, the commission determines the type of disorder, the degree of disability, if the results confirm the disease, then the appropriate disability group is assigned.

Is it possible to take the child from the mother if she has schizophrenia

Most women who suffer from this disease and have children are more interested in this issue than others. You need to know that one diagnosis of schizophrenia, like other mental disorders, is not enough to deprive parental rights.

There is a possibility that the parent will be limited in rights, but only after assessing the patient's condition at the current moment, the likelihood of dangerous situations that may arise because of it.

Because only psychiatrists have the right to do this, a forensic psychological-psychiatric examination is appointed. In addition, the verdict of psychologists is important, they study the situation, find out what is happening in the family, and based on the conclusion received, the court decides what to do in this case.

If a child has a very strong spiritual and emotional connection with his mother, he feels love from her side, feels calm next to her, then separation will be a severe shock, cause neurotic disorders, bedwetting.

How to get diagnosed with schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a diagnosis that can complicate life. Despite the incurability of the disease, the patient can get rid of it, although far and not immediately.

First of all, the observational data of the last 5 years are taken into account (during this period, the disease must be in stable remission, without relapses). In addition, the patient should not have concomitant mental disorders that require therapy, inpatient treatment and medication.

To remove the diagnosis, a woman must take the application to the head physician of the psychoneurological dispensary and tune in for a subsequent examination. She will require a 2-3 week hospitalization during which she is monitored but not treated.

There is another option for removing the diagnosis when the attending physician does not agree with this.

This will require filing a lawsuit with the court.

Litigation may take longer, but the woman will still have to undergo the required tests and differential diagnosis, followed by an examination.

Conclusion

Schizophrenia, the symptoms and signs of which in women can frighten others, is a serious mental disorder that requires mandatory treatment. Therefore, you should be more attentive to your own health and consult a doctor with primary symptoms. There should be no constraint, because. we are talking about possible threats, both for the woman and others.

Today we examined in detail the symptoms of schizophrenia in women, the causes of the development of this mental disorder. How is this disease inherited, and whether it can be treated. Is it possible to remove the diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Attention! The article is purely informative and is not a guide to action.

If you have any questions, please contact your physician. I propose to discuss and supplement this undoubtedly useful article. I am interested in the opinion of every blog reader - is it worth continuing to write articles on a similar topic. I'm waiting for a reaction. Different!

Sincerely, Tina Tomchuk

Schizophrenia is a well-known mental illness. In the world, this disease affects several tens of millions of people. Among the main hypotheses of the origin of the disease, especially close attention is the question: can schizophrenia be inherited?

Concern about whether schizophrenia is inherited is quite justified for people whose families have recorded cases of the disease. Also, a possible bad heredity worries when entering into marriage and planning offspring.

After all, this diagnosis means serious stupefaction of the psyche (the very word "schizophrenia" is translated as "split consciousness"): delirium, hallucinations, motor disorders, manifestations of autism. A sick person becomes unable to think adequately, communicate with others and needs psychiatric treatment.

The first studies of the family spread of the disease were carried out as early as the 19th and 20th centuries. For example, in the clinic of the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, large groups of schizophrenic patients were studied. Also interesting are the works of the American professor of medicine I. Gottesman, who dealt with this topic.

Initially, there were a number of difficulties in confirming the "family theory". In order to determine with certainty whether a genetic disease or not, it was necessary to recreate a complete picture of ailments in the human race. But many patients simply could not reliably confirm the presence or absence of mental disorders in their family.

Perhaps some of the relatives of the patients knew about the obscurations of the mind, but these facts were often carefully concealed. Severe psychotic illness in the family imposed a social stigma on the whole family. Therefore, such stories were hushed up both for posterity and for doctors. Often, the ties between the sick person and his relatives were completely broken.

Nevertheless, the family sequence in the etiology of the disease was traced very clearly. Although it is unequivocally in the affirmative that schizophrenia is necessarily inherited, doctors, fortunately, do not give. But genetic predisposition is in some of the main causes of this mental disorder.

Statistical data of the "genetic theory"

To date, psychiatry has accumulated enough information to come to certain conclusions about how schizophrenia is inherited.

Medical statistics state that if there is no mental obscuration in your ancestral line, then the probability of getting sick is no more than 1%. However, if your relatives did have such diseases, then the risk increases accordingly and ranges from 2 to almost 50%.

The highest rates were recorded in pairs of identical (monozygotic) twins. They have exactly the same genes. If one of them gets sick, then the second one has a 48% risk of pathology.

A case described in works on psychiatry (monograph by D. Rosenthal et al.) as early as the 70s of the 20th century attracted great attention of the medical community. The father of four identical twin girls suffered from mental disorders. Girls developed normally, studied and communicated with their peers. One of them did not graduate from an educational institution, but three completed their studies at school safely. However, at the age of 20-23, schizoid mental disorders began to develop in all sisters. The most severe form - catatonic (with characteristic symptoms in the form of psychomotor disorders) was recorded in a girl who did not finish school. Of course, in such vivid cases of doubt, this is a hereditary disease or acquired, psychiatrists simply do not arise.

There is a 46% chance that a descendant will get sick if one of the parents (or mother or father) is sick in his family, but both grandmother and grandfather are sick. The genetic disease in the family in this case is also actually confirmed. A similar percentage of risk would be in a person whose father and mother were both mentally ill in the absence of similar diagnoses among their parents. Here it is also quite easy to see that the patient's disease is hereditary and not acquired.

If in a pair of fraternal twins one of them has a pathology, then the risk of the second getting sick will be 15-17%. Such a difference between identical and fraternal twins is associated with the same genetic set in the first case, and different in the second.

A person with one patient in the first or second generation of the family will have a 13% chance. For example, the likelihood of an illness is transmitted from the mother to a healthy father. Or vice versa - from the father, while the mother is healthy. Option: both parents are healthy, but there is one mentally ill among grandparents.

9% if your siblings fell victim to a mental illness, but no more similar deviations were found in the next tribes of relatives.

From 2 to 6% risk will be for someone in whose family there is only one case of pathology: one of your parents, half-brother or sister, uncle or aunt, one of the nephews, etc.

Note! Even 50% probability is not a sentence, not 100%. So do not take too close to heart the folk myths about the inevitability of passing on diseased genes "through generation" or "from generation to generation." At the moment, genetics still does not have sufficient knowledge to accurately state the inevitability of the onset of the disease in each specific case.

Which line is more likely to have bad heredity?

Together with the question of whether or not a terrible disease is inherited, the type of inheritance itself was closely studied. What is the most common line of transmission of the disease? There is an opinion among the people that heredity in the female line is much less common than in the male.

However, psychiatry does not confirm this conjecture. In the question of how schizophrenia is inherited more often - through the female line or through the male line, medical practice has revealed that gender is not critical. That is, the transmission of a pathological gene from mother to son or daughter is possible with the same probability as from the father.

The myth that the disease is transmitted to children more often through the male line is associated only with the peculiarities of the pathology in men. As a rule, mentally ill men are simply more visible in society than women: they are more aggressive, there are more alcoholics and drug addicts among them, they are more difficult to experience stress and mental complications, and they adapt worse in society after mental crises.

About other hypotheses of the origin of pathology

Does it happen that a mental disorder affects a person in whose family there were absolutely no such pathologies? Medicine unequivocally answered in the affirmative the question of whether schizophrenia can be acquired.

Along with heredity, among the main causes of the development of the disease, doctors also call:

• neurochemical disorders;
• alcoholism and drug addiction;
• traumatic experience experienced by a person;
• mother's illness during gestation, etc.

The scheme of development of a mental disorder is always individual. A hereditary disease or not - in each specific case is visible only when taking into account all the possible causes of a disorder of consciousness.

Obviously, with a combination of bad heredity and other provoking factors, the risk of getting sick will be higher.

Additional Information. In more detail about the causes of the pathology, its development and possible prevention, the psychotherapist, candidate of medical sciences Galushchak A.

What if you are at risk?

If you know for sure that you have an innate predisposition to mental disorders, you need to take this information seriously. Any disease is easier to prevent than to cure.

Simple preventive measures are quite within the power of any person:

1. Lead a healthy lifestyle, give up alcohol and other bad habits, choose the best mode of physical activity and rest for yourself, control your diet.
2. Regularly see a psychologist, consult a doctor in a timely manner for any adverse symptoms, do not self-medicate.
3. Pay special attention to your mental well-being: avoid stressful situations, excessive stress.

Remember that a competent and calm attitude to the problem facilitates the path to success in any business. With timely access to doctors, in our time, many cases of schizophrenia are successfully treated, and patients get a chance for a healthy and happy life.

Emptiness. I live with my mother with schizophrenia. It leaves an imprint. Not an alcoholic, not a drug addict. sleep, swam, began to hear voices. It’s good that he himself began to understand that something was wrong with himself. Thank God they pulled me out of this state in a psychiatric hospital. about suicide. But I'm afraid to hurt my loved ones. And I see only death ahead. I don't see any prospects.
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Alexey, age: 34/05.07.2009

Responses:

Alexei,

I also had a similar condition due to severe stress, I spent a lot of money and time on psychotherapists and pills and already thought that everything was terrible and a trip to the monastery saved me, after which I began to read Orthodox literature and life got better. Now I realized that in this way God simply wanted to draw my attention to the wrong things in my life. In general, I strongly advise you to turn to God, He will definitely help. At first I was also skeptical about all this, but I read prayers just in case and, although I did not believe (I really hoped), everything went away only after turning to God. Which I highly recommend to you. Even if all this is far from you, you have your own views and you do not believe, try it, you will not lose anything, but you can gain a lot. God bless you!

Solnyshko, age: 30 / 07/05/2009

In such a situation, you just need to believe that everything will work out and everything will be fine. After all, you always have time to go to be killed, right? And if you do it later, then at least your mother will not be lost without you. I know how hard it is to live with a person like your mother. Every day on the nerves. This is a test, hold on, apparently fate happened this way, God wanted it that way - you can pick up any name - you must pass this test! Look for ways out of this situation. For example, take out a loan to put your mother in a private clinic where she will be well cared for, or hire a nurse and work quietly to pay it off - your life will immediately become easier.

Alexey, hello!
My father has schizophrenia. And I myself have to go to a psychiatrist.
It's really hard when the people closest to you get sick. Mother really needs your help and support - no one can take care of her better than you, no one knows her better than you know.
Find a job that would be interesting and convenient for you, communicate with people who are interesting to you.
Read the stories of those who were treated in a psychiatric hospital and how their lives are now:


Hold on!

Julia, age: 22 / 05.07.2009

Wrong, Alex! Ahead of life, which you can make normal and happy. You know the reasons for the problems in your life ... so you can figure out how to deal with them. Is it possible to live separately with your mother? At the expense of the disease - you know about it and therefore you can be treated. Think it's not so bad! You are a strong man and I believe in you!

Natalia, age: 31 / 07/06/2009

You can do without suicides and psychiatrists. there is such a program that helps to understand difficult life situations, illnesses, like Family Constellations according to Bert Hellinger. Examples of this training can be found on the Internet - I typed in Yandex and watched the video. It's just about schizophrenia. You can read the books of Hellinger himself, they explain many events in the family and the connection with the state of mind using this program as an example. It belongs to psychotherapy, and one of the strongest. You will look at your situation from the outside, help your soul calm down, and the situation with schizophrenia can be corrected by constellation.

Elka, age: 07/19/2009

Alexey, I absolutely agree with Solnyshko. Has gone through itself that you describe (except a current). Now I know that suffering and illness are given to us to turn to spiritual forces. You won't lose anything, and perhaps gain... Life!
Each of us has a soul. This is the same human organ, only invisible. He can get sick too. And for its treatment, one must turn to the invisible forces. Try to sincerely, in your own words, ask for what is important to you.
I'm sorry I'm learning. But I really want to help you, because. I see myself in you.
The Lord taught me to pray like this: "Lord, come! Lord, help me! Deliver me from all manifestations of the evil one!"
Try to believe that there are forces in this world that help us invisibly. Believe in goodness and in the help of God. Everything will be fine!!!
P.S. Come to the forum. A lot of help here.

Irina, age: 36 / 07/06/2009

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