Yoohee+Chang+Movie+Questions

No, insulin shock therapy was not a viable clinical treatment because it had a high risk of mortality. It was not safe to take an insulin shock therapy. It’s procedure was very hazard. Insulin shock therapy also had various side effects such as loss of hair, depression, and vomiting.
 * Was insulin shock therapy a viable clinical treatment?

I believe that John Nash was an unusual case because he could almost adjusted himself in the society. Many of the schizophrenic patients have to get cured by a constant medication, in order to get fully cured. In the John’s case, he was able to continue his daily routine without the medicine.
 * Was John Nash an unusual case, or do you think that many schizophrenic patients can be taught to function in society with without medication?

In the movie it is shown that patients who are curing with ICT suffer from severe pain. Not only suffering from the pain, some patients treated with ICT resulted failures. ICT treatment deduce the schizophrenic by putting patients into the coma, most of the patients successfully cure the illness, but there are small possibility of not being able to recover from the coma. Even though, this therapy is very dangerous with possibility of risking one’s life, but it was one and only way to cure schizophrenic. Procedure of using ICT is very dangerous; however, people chose to use ICT in order to get fully cured from the illness.
 * What are the dangers and/or advantages of this type of treatment (re: insulin shock therapy)?

As I mentioned before, the ICT was insecure, and caused various side effects, but as the medical technology developed, other therapy was discovered. There were just one therapy to cure schizophrenic, but in these days, there are lots of options to cure the mental illness. There are different types of medication or treatment for different types of schizophrenia. Since they have more accurate treatment or medication, the percentage of people who are recovered from schizophrenia increased.
 * What is the difference between the treatment of schizophrenia in 1960-1970 and today?

There are various types of schizophrenia. The worst case of schizophrenia is paranoid-type. Patients who have paranoid type schizophrenia often see delusions, and hear hallucinations, but they express a normal intellectual functions. Most of the patients who are suffering from paranoid type often see themselves as a person who is famous. On the other hand, they exhibit their anger, anxiety, and argumentativeness. I think paranoid type is the worst case. When a person starts to see delusion and hear hallucinations, it can start to disorganize his or her daily routine. It can also give discomfort to people beside him or her. Among other types of schizophrenia, I think disorganized type is the lease worst case. Disorganized type schizophrenia can be characterized by speech or behavior that can not be understand clearly, and expression of inappropriate emotions. People who have disorganized type schizophrenia laugh at something that is not related to what they are saying or doing. Their behaviors can also disorganize normal activities: showering, dressing, and preparing meals. I think disorganized type schizophrenia is not the worst case, because I think not understanding behavior or speech would not greatly affect the daily routine. Even though, person with disorganized type schizophrenia would laugh at the unusual occasions. I personally think that expressing anger or any negative feelings is worse than laughing at something that is not representation.
 * What are the various types of schizophrenia? Which would you consider the worst case to have? The least worst? Explain why for each.

There are some available treatments for schizophrenia, such as chlorpromazine, clozapine, haloperidol, risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, and aripiprazole. These treatments can also be called as antipsychotics. Antipsychotics reduces the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia and also allows patients to function properly in their daily routine. Antipsychotic drugs do not result the best outcomes, but it is the best treatments that are available. These antipsychotic do not fulling cure the mental illness, but instead postpone further psychotic episodes. Since 1990, the improvements have been showed due to the antipsychotics treatments, these treatments are now called as “atypical antipsychotics.”
 * What treatments are being pioneered today for schizophrenia?

sources: http://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/guide/schizophrenia-symptoms-types http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/schizophrenia/a/sz3.htm