Roseville Psychiatrists Treat Serious Mental Illnesses

By Rhea Solomon


A large listing of psychiatrists practice in the United States. Among the Roseville psychiatrists are more than half who are board certified. Medication is often used to treat the more severe cases of mental illness. It can control a great many disorders.

The most severe mentally ill people include the schizophrenic who is out of touch with the real world. The afflicted person cannot think clearly, show normal emotional responses or act normally when around other people.

The cause is unknown although research shows there may be a genetic cause. This complex mental disorder occurs in women as often as it does in men. Onset is most often in the late teens or early twenties. It can start later in life, especially in women.

On the rare occasion that a child develops schizophrenia, it usually starts after the child is five years old. Diagnosing it in children is difficult. The child may exhibit symptoms that can also indicate another disorder. Thus, it is often misdiagnosed as autism or another developmental disorder.

The full set of symptoms will not appear in the same person. One may show one or two of the symptoms and another might have nearly all of them. The individual might have anxiety, depressed thoughts and there might be suicidal thoughts. The prescriptions may be helping but the patient often stops taking them and regresses.

A psychotic disorder is often attributed to some underlying cause. When it cannot be found based on anything it is referred to as not otherwise specified. It may lack the specific symptomotology most illnesses are classified by. A psychotic undergoes personality change, has erratic behavior and cannot function cognitively.

Some psychotics are not able to speak coherently, others exhibit inappropriate behavior. They may react oddly to external stimulus. Laughter might be the response to a funeral and sadness could be expressed at the birth of a baby. They cannot truly feel happiness. Hallucinations are common.

Information about the psychotic patient must be gathered by the psychiatrist and it will not be forthcoming from him. Often the family is the only source of information available. This insight is extremely important in the way it contributes to the psychiatrists ability to plan treatment.

Any time a schizophrenic or other psychotic patient expresses the desire to commit suicide, it is imperative he have inpatient treatment. This is for his own safety. The same is true if he expresses a wish to hurt another person or other people. He must be confined until those feelings can be controlled, usually with medication.

Manic depressive disorder is a disabling condition. It has a manic period when the person is highly agitated and in constant movement. The opposite is true when he is in the depressive phase. During that period he may sleep excessively and be unable to communicate with anyone. Some have mild cases of this and others can have a severe version.

Intensity and frequency occur in many variations from patient to patient. The symptoms will be very noticeable when they are intense. Mild symptoms may allow one to live without anyone noticing he has the mental health disorder. The care planned by one of the Roseville psychiatrists is adjusted on a case by case basis. With prescription medication and psychotherapy, this is a highly treatable mental illness.




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