Is there a cure for schizophrenia?

Nowadays, cities are developing faster and faster, and most young people are facing difficulties in finding jobs and buying houses. Excessive pressure has led to the frequent occurrence of mental illnesses. Schizophrenia is a common and severe mental illness in clinical practice, which usually manifests as abnormal mental activity and strange behavior. Patients generally have normal consciousness. So, when faced with this severe mental illness, can it be treated? What is the best treatment? Let’s take a look at it together below.

Cognitive therapy

Cognitive therapy is to help patients correct distorted cognition, or change various incorrect views, so as to treat patients and improve or eliminate maladaptive emotions and behaviors. It is suitable for depressive neurosis, anxiety, phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc.

Behavioral therapy

Behavioral therapy is to improve or change people's behavior through conditioned reflex or learning as well as appropriate rewards and punishments. At the same time, people's attitudes and emotions will also change accordingly with the changes in behavior. The behavioral therapies used to treat neurosis mainly include: systematic desensitization therapy and shock therapy (exposure therapy).

Supportive psychotherapy uses guidance, persuasion, counseling, encouragement, comfort, and even certain reassurances to let patients know that they are not alone and help them build up the courage and confidence to overcome the disease. It helps them to free themselves from excessive psychological pressure, restore their psychological balance, and even ultimately cure various symptoms. This is supportive psychotherapy.

Psychoanalysis

The traditional psychoanalysis method is to allow patients to associate freely. In recent years, it has mainly adopted face-to-face, ordinary conversation methods to allow patients to fully express their subconscious thoughts, or in layman's terms, to pour out the thoughts deep in their souls. Through analysis, doctors understand the patient's various desires and motivations, and understand the patient's response to frustration, conflict or stress. They explain and help the patient. After long-term treatment, they can adjust the patient's inner world, eliminate various emotional knots, promote personality maturity, and improve the ability to adapt to reality.

The above is the experts’ summary of knowledge on the question of whether schizophrenia can be cured. We hope that patients and their families can choose the treatment method that suits them, discover the disease in time, seek medical treatment early, follow the doctor’s advice, and carry out active and effective treatment.