Endless mourning and lingering hope : The difficulty of living with a paranoid schizophrenic patient
A schizophrenic patient suffers from emotional, social, occupational and devastating mental symptoms that have a significant effect on their families. The struggle for families living with a schizophrenic patient includes fear, embarrassment, stigma, uncertainty, and the lack of social support. Host...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2020-01-01
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Series: | Hamdan Medical Journal |
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Online Access: | http://www.hamdanjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2227-2437;year=2020;volume=13;issue=4;spage=231;epage=234;aulast=Ahmed |
Summary: | A schizophrenic patient suffers from emotional, social, occupational and devastating mental symptoms that have a significant effect on their families. The struggle for families living with a schizophrenic patient includes fear, embarrassment, stigma, uncertainty, and the lack of social support. Hostile, critical environment or overly involved families have a negative impact which, tends to increase patient relapse. Developing therapeutic family intervention skills will decrease negative family emotional outbursts and construct a healthy household environment which enhances more patient recovery. |
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ISSN: | 2227-2437 2227-247X |