Sarah+Cho+SCHIZO


 * 1. Was insulin shock therapy a viable clinical treatment?**

Insulin shock therapy was somewhat a viable clinical treatment because some of the patients showed positive reactions towards this therapy. The process of this therapy is to insult insulin to create coma. This therapy was stopped by the United States in the 1970s, but some other countries still used it as a therapy. In the movie //A Beautiful Mind//, John has taken the therapy for six-weeks, and normally patients find a way to cure illnesses like schizophrenia. Even though people don't take the therapy, the patients at some point will cure, even it takes time.


 * 2. Was John Nash an unusual case, or do you think that many schizophrenic patients can be taught to function in society with without medication?**

I do not believe that John Nash was an unusual case of narcissism. The symptoms shown by John were symptoms of usual narcissists except he had visions and hearing of aliens, nothing much was different. John was able to overcome this illness not by taking only medicament but by socializing and taking a step into the community. In my opinion, the ways of treatment one should receive should be all different because just like different people having different characteristics, people have different ways to cure a certain illness. As for my point, it is better not to use medications because it may do harm to other parts of bodies. But if one really needs it, then it could turn to be a consideration.


 * 3. What are the dangers and/or advantages of this type of treatment (re: insulin shock therapy)?**

The dangers of this type of treatment is loss or mutation with memory or unable to proceed any of the after memories. In example of John Nash, he was unable to remember the senses of that period of time. The loss of sense or memory shows that there has been a damage to the brain. This proves how the patients who has been participating in this treatment has disadvantages and loss of some sort. Thus, it is best to use other treatment than insulin shock therapy.


 * 4. What is the difference between the treatment of schizophrenia in 1960-1970 and today?**

From 1960 to 1970, the treatment used for schizophrenics was using anti-psychotic drugs, however, this showed dreadful negative effects on the patients. After this has been detected, the treatment now is positive and negative syndrome scale.


 * 5. What are the various types of schizophrenia? Which would you consider the worst case to have? The least worst? Explain why for each.**

Various types of schizophrenia are hallucination, paranoid, delusion, or disorganization of speech and thinking. Hallucination is doing some actions that have no mind and thoughts into it. Paranoid is having excessive amount of fear and anger, receiving a huge amount of pressure and threat from the outside world. Delusion is believing in something that is considered false or untrue, and not changing their opinions about this fact. Disorganization of speech and thinking is unable to organize the words and thoughts leading them into a disorganized life and speech where they wouldn't have a chance to interact with others. I would consider the worst case to be hallucination because if one does not have his/her mind into the actions they are taking, it could lead into a very dangerous act such as killing other peers. The least worst would probably be delusion because when someone simply just has a different opinion and thought, it is more likely that he/she won't do much harm to others.


 * 6. What treatments are being pioneered today for schizophrenia?**

The treatments that are being pioneered today for schizophrenia is fairly unable to be fixedly determined, however, the simple drugs depending the different sorts of schizophrenia is differentiated. But the main goal and idea in the beginning is to determine the main problem of the patient. Others would be simple drugs to cure those problems but not in a short amount of time.