MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS
STRESS AND ILLNESS
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Patients are illiterate.
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Patients have a difficult time maintaining their medicinal treatment.
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Patients are too violent to treat.
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Patients have an allergy to all medicines.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Because medications for schizophrenia can cause serious side effects, people with schizophrenia may be reluctant to take them. Willingness to cooperate with treatment may affect drug choice. For example, someone who is resistant to taking medication consistently may need to be given injections instead of taking a pill.
Detailed explanation-2: -The single most significant reason why individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder fail to take their medication is because of their lack of awareness of their illness (anosognosia). Other important reasons are concurrent alcohol or drug abuse; costs; and a poor relationship between psychiatrist and patient.
Detailed explanation-3: -The disease is challenging largely because the symptoms can manifest so differently in individual patients. Some patients become delusional and hallucinate events that are removed from reality, other patients tend to crave social isolation and lack the ability for emotional responses.
Detailed explanation-4: -Anosognosia, also called “lack of insight, ” is a symptom of severe mental illness experienced by some that impairs a person’s ability to understand and perceive his or her illness. It is the single largest reason why people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder refuse medications or do not seek treatment.