How To Treat A Person With Paranoid Schizophrenia

Posted on October 17, 2008
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by Ronen David
An illness that leads a person to lose touch with reality, paranoid schizophrenia does not show up over night. It can take years to develop and knowing how to treat someone with it can be a tricky thing due to it being trigged both environmentally and genetically.

While the cause is difficult to pinpoint the way you should treat them is not. You will have to be patient and kind due to those suffering having a tendency to anger for no reason and experience horrifying hallucinations.

There is continuous controversy over the cure as a wide range of symptoms combine to make up the illness rather than the disease having a definite definition. The management of symptoms associated with paranoid schizophrenia is believed to be easier than finding a cure for this devastating illness.

The symptoms associated with the illness are difficult for those close to the ones suffering to deal with. Not only will they experience paranoia they will deny the fact that there is anything wrong due to fear of the stigma associated with the illness. The fear of being judged will prevent them from actively seeking help in some of the more severe cases.

You should not get in the face of someone that is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. This just leads to an increase in paranoia, instead you should stand by their side. This makes you less threatening and you can see the world from the same view or a similar view as they do. This will avoid you appearing to be confrontational to them.

You have been trained all of your life to make eye contact when people that you are speaking to. Now it is time to forget it. When dealing with someone that is paranoid you should avoid looking them directly in the eye as this leads them to feel even more paranoid.

When you are speaking to them you should avoid saying “you” and “I”. Instead pronouns should be used in their place such as him, her or them to make them feel less threatened. Body language says a lot and if you are not careful you can make them think that you pose a threat to them. How to treat a person with paranoid schizophrenia is very carefully. You want the paranoia to be directed at the real world instead of one person or thing.

Rationalizing with those that suffer from paranoid schizophrenia is not a feasible possibility since they have lost the ability to rationalize. You want to avoid starting an argument with them and try to identify with them. The feelings of the person should be mirrored in your face so that you are not causing a confrontation where there did not have to be one.

There is no need to try and get them to trust actually you can mistrust the world along with them. There idea of reality is not easily altered and you will cause them frustration and a mistrust of you trying to change their perceptions of the outside world.

It is a good idea to put of a psycho education. When a person has paranoid schizophrenia and is in the mist of an attack of paranoia they are not able to accept that an illness is present. They may even blame others for their condition so you have to wait until they have come out of the current paranoid state to seek counseling for them. You have to bond with them before you can approach them about seeking the help of a professional to discuss their condition with.

How to treat a person with paranoid schizophrenia will be affected by whether or not they are in denial of their illness. When they are in severe denial it doesn’t matter what form of treatment you offer them they are going to deny it. Counseling, medication or a natural approach will all seem useless to those that are in denial that they have a problem. You have to decide whether or not to even mention the fact they are denying they have a problem when you trying to figure out how to treat a person with paranoid schizophrenia.

How you treat a person with paranoid schizophrenia will depend largely on how close you are to them. The amount of help and resources available to you will have an impact as well when it comes to how to treat someone with paranoid schizophrenia.

Ronen David is the author of the “The Coping With Psychosis & Schizophrenia Package”. Visit his web site and learn aboutPsychosis Symptoms