World Mental Health Day: 'Living with Schizophrenia' Theme for 2014

Around 26 million people worldwide are affected by schizophrenia, the focus of World Mental Health Day this year.

Despite being a treatable disorder, more than half of people diagnosed with schizophrenia are unable to access adequate treatment. Around 90% of people with the condition who go untreated live in the developing world.

World Mental Health Day, celebrated annually on 10 October, shines a light on those living with schizophrenia – from those who face every day of their lives with it, to their families, friends, doctors and society as a whole – to raise awareness of the illness and focus on recovery.

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Sometimes,the poorness play important role to treatment the schizophrenia,
the needing to small change to achieve some goods of daily life events,has been
pushing the schizophrenic individuals in the developed world to work most time
of the day,them preoccupy with fighting hunger for the survival most day time
make them do not feel with the internal symptoms-and that is the critical point !

in sum,the poorness in the developed world make the schizophrenic focus
his attention and interesting to confrontation the problems of daily life events,rather than
staying inside the houses alone to fighting the imaginary people in his imagination without avail !

BUT the social conditions in the civilized world has been pushing the schizophrenic individuals to the laziness and depend on the medication, aids and others utilities of mental
health care,without achieve any real recovery to the schizophrenic citizen !

I know it is all relative-but in this country also-the resources are bad and, when budgets are cut-social services for anyone are the first thing to be chipped away at. The only way is to help ourselves and our loved ones. No one else will.

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strong textI am one of the lucky one who with the right doctors and medication have been able to stay out of the hospital since 1997 and am as stable as I ever have been. I was first diagnosed in 1983 at the age of 23.

It angers me no media outlet mentions anything about mental illness except when something tragic occurs. I feel the media is letting all of us down and are doing nothing to remove the stigma to this illness and that is a big reason so many fail to get the help they so need!

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Simple question
How can you live your life,while the cause of schizophrenia lives his life within your psychological component ?
-you should confrontation this alien by your cultural and religious knowledge,but that does
not achieved in the absence of good family,social ,medical care …etc because

after the onset of sz
,the cause of sz creates huge psychological,mental,chemical,
social and familial problems…etc,the schizophrenic can not solve these problems
in the absence of social,family,medical care ,wherever he loss the ability to focus
his attention to creates the suitable behaviors responds for most daily life events,
and that have negative effects over his studying in the school , his working in his job and the rest of social relationships events

in other words,he needs more years to adapts with,deal with or solve these problems ,
while he in school or a worker or else…!!

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