Sunday, October 6, 2013

Roseville Psychiatrists Treat Serious Mental Illnesses

By Rhea Solomon


The United States has sufficient psychiatric help available to assist mentally ill individuals. There are twenty six board certified Roseville psychiatrists. They treat psychotic patients as well as other seriously ill people. Some mentally ill people do not seek treatment because they do not want others to know they are ill.

The most severe mentally ill people include the schizophrenic who is out of touch with the real world. The afflicted person cannot think clearly, show normal emotional responses or act normally when around other people.

Although the cause of schizophrenia is not known, there is thought to be a genetic link. Women suffer this complex mental disorder as often as men. The onset is usually late teens to early adulthood. However, it may start later in life than that, especially among the women who are afflicted.

Children are stricken with this mental disorder rarely. When it does occur in children it is usually after the age of five. The reason it is so hard to diagnose is that it has the same symptoms as other development disorders. Thus, the child may be misdiagnosed.

Symptoms may occur in different people in varying degrees. One person may have one or two of the symptoms while another may have more. One person may function well in spite of it and another may not be functional at all. This mental illness can be controlled through the use of prescription medication. The patient sometimes stops taking them and when the effect wears off, regresses rapidly.

A psychotic disorder is often attributed to some underlying cause. When it cannot be found based on anything it is referred to as not otherwise specified. It may lack the specific symptomotology most illnesses are classified by. A psychotic undergoes personality change, has erratic behavior and cannot function cognitively.

Hallucinations, erratic speech patterns and the inability to concentrate are earmarks of the psychotic illness. Responses may be unusual, possibly the exact opposite of what the average person would exhibit.

Information about the psychotic patient must be gathered by the psychiatrist and it will not be forthcoming from him. Often the family is the only source of information available. This insight is extremely important in the way it contributes to the psychiatrists ability to plan treatment.

When someone talks about committing suicide, he must be protected and treated as an inpatient. His safety cannot be guaranteed otherwise. Sometimes there will be a threat to hurt another person. He must then be confined for the protection of the public.

When a person has manic depressive disorder, he will usually require prescription medication to control it. He has mood swings that range from mildly disruptive to downright disabling. He will be totally up or totally down and these changes will take place on a regular basis. Sometimes they will not occur for months and other times more frequently.

The intensity varies from one patient to another. Under the care of one of the Roseville psychiatrists, this disorder can be brought under control with medication and counseling. If the individual continues to take the prescribed dosage, he can live a relatively normal life.




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