Topic: Alternative Medicine

Alternative Medicine

Introduction : Patient's Particular Health Issues

We will take up the study of a young school going kid around 14 years in age who is suffering from the chronic mental disease of schizophrenia. Let's talk about what the disease is all about and what does he actually face. Michael faces the illness tremendously by having hallucinations of aliens that will take him over to his planet. They torture him and he keeps on rebelling against them and crying which really hurts his parents and loved ones.

Child schizophrenia is a never-ending mental disease distinguished by illusions, fantasy, unreasonable behavior and not being able to work out daily routines. It initiates way early in life and is very much alike adult schizophrenia (Romme & Escher,1993). The cause of this disease remains unknown.

There are various factors that were studied that gradually revealed that Michael was suffering from the disease.

Causative Factors

Schizophrenia is a multifarious disease. Experts do not have much idea what actually is the root cause of such a complex disease. Mainly, genes may play a vital role in it. Michael also had a history of Schizophrenia is his family. His grandmother who passed away three years ago was an extreme case of the disease. Hence, Michael caught it as certain events in his life triggered it as he was at a risk for it because of his genes.

The symptoms of the disease usually grow gradually over a period of months or years. In Michael's case there will few symptoms visible at the age when he was 9 but no one actually thought that it was a symptom of such a chronicle disease. But as years passes by the symptoms began to increase rapidly and called for assistance as they could not be controlled like that.

The child since he was 9 had extreme trouble making friends and working in clusters. In school he would remain isolated aloof from children and in every parent teacher meeting the teachers would complain about his behavior. In his early age he usually felt irritable easily, could not concentrate on anything for a long period much, he could not study even half an hour concentrating on his homework. He also had trouble sleeping which even aggravated the disease more. As he grew up he behaved like a child even at the age of 13. He had trouble thinking and making his idea flow by clearly. He never showed too much of emotions even when he was a kid but whenever he faces the hallucination he totally changes and gets disturbed. Let's review some of Michael's symptoms that he faces in detail below:

Hallucinations

Michael used to hear sounds and vision of things that were not real. His family used to think he was focused on something else in the room but he used to talk to something which actually did not exist. At times he would be found hearing someone who was not present there in reality. Hallucinations usually strengthen when the child is all alone and such ...