What do I need to know to prevent a relapse of schizophrenia?

  Schizophrenia is a common serious mental illness that, if not treated in a timely manner, can bring great harm to the patient’s work, study and life. It is particularly important to actively prevent the occurrence of mental illnesses, and the following are some of the things that need to be noted to prevent schizophrenia relapse: 1. Adherence to maintenance medication Maintenance medication is the most effective relapse prevention measure, and a large number of clinical statistics show that most relapses of schizophrenia are related to self-medication discontinuation. Adhere to the maintenance amount of medication patients relapse rate of 40%. The relapse rate for those who do not adhere to the maintenance dose is as high as 80%. Therefore, patients and family members should attach great importance to maintenance treatment.  2, adhere to regular outpatient review Be sure to adhere to regular outpatient review, so that the doctor continuous, dynamic understanding of the condition, so that patients are often under the medical supervision of psychiatrists, timely adjustment of medication according to changes in the condition. The review also enables the patient to receive timely consultation and psychotherapy, and relieves the patient of various confusions in life, work and medication, which also plays an important role in preventing relapse of schizophrenia.  3, reduce triggering factors Family members and people around them should be fully aware of the weakness of the mental state of schizophrenia patients after the disease, and help arrange daily life, work and study. Talk to the patient often, help the patient treat the disease correctly, treat real life correctly, help the patient improve psychological tolerance, learn how to deal with stressful events, encourage the patient to increase confidence, and guide the patient to live a fulfilling life so that the patient can live in an environment free of psychological stress and mental distress.  4, timely detection of relapse aura, timely treatment Schizophrenia relapse is aura, as long as timely detection, timely adjustment of drugs and doses, generally can prevent relapse, common relapse aura for: patients appear for no reason to sleep poorly, lazy, reluctant to get up, dazed and froze, emotional instability, unexplained temper, irritability, rambling, talk outrageous, or the idea of the disease and show their heads. This is when you should seek medical attention and adjust the treatment timely treatment when the condition fluctuates can prevent the relapse of the disease.  5, community psychiatric prevention and treatment To detect patients early, treat them early, and prevent relapse, it is necessary to establish psychiatric prevention and treatment institutions in society, and to popularize the knowledge of psychiatric prevention and treatment in primary health care organizations. Since the establishment of community psychiatric prevention and treatment institutions, the relapse rate of schizophrenia has declined more significantly.  Although schizophrenia is difficult to treat, as long as you do a good job of preventing schizophrenia and then choose a regular hospital to treat it, I believe the disease will get better quickly.