What if a patient with schizophrenia does not want to take medication?

  During the onset of schizophrenia, more than 95% of patients are unwilling to take medication, and the vast majority must be forced or tricked into hospitalization. After hospitalization and other treatment, most patients get better and are discharged, and after discharge, they have to continue taking medication. Some patients take medication for six months or two years and feel that they are well, so they do not want to continue taking medication, which can lead to relapse and forced or persuaded hospitalization again. Some time after discharge and discontinuation of medication, had to be hospitalized again, wasting medical resources, consuming the energy of the family, affecting the patient’s study or work. And the more relapses, the greater the risk of future relapses, resulting in a prolonged course of the disease.  So what should be done for such patients, or patients who have to go to school or work and are afraid of taking medication to be found out by their classmates or colleagues and feel ashamed of their illness? According to the patient’s own situation, long-acting injections can be considered, which are given intramuscularly once a month. This also provides good control of the disease, increases the patient’s compliance with the medication, reduces relapses, improves the patient’s condition and prognosis, and helps greatly to improve his or her social function. It also eliminates their fear of their classmates and colleagues knowing they are ill, and also well prevents patients from reducing or hiding their own medication, which is conducive to their better return to society. If the injection is ineffective, twitch-free electrotherapy can also be done.