Chronic And Severe Mental Disorder - 1259 Words

The moment people feel pain they resort to the doctor to find out what is going on with their bodies. They feel either very high pain or moderate pain depending on their problem and symptoms. However, when you are a schizophrenic person you don t feel pain like a person without this disorder would feel it. In fact it at times leads them to go on without knowing they have a disease that can be fatal. The pain can come into your body and take over but you are insensitive to this. That is how a schizophrenic person feels every single day of their lives without even noticing. It s a chronic and severe mental disorder that is genetic. Some scientists think that an imbalance in the complex, interrelated chemical reactions of the brain†¦show more content†¦This can be life threatening because they can come in too late to get treatment. For example, it was mentioned by Dwrokin that whether the patients did or did no complain about pain most of them got attention relatively late in t he course of their disease. In fact the percentage of complaints by non-schizophrenia patients was 95 percent or more with these disorders. Those disorders mentioned are acute appendicitis and acute peptic ulcer (Dwrokin, 1994). Not only do they not know they have a disease or some type of injury but they can also hurt themselves. They are less sensitive to bodily discomfort; they endure uncomfortable positions, pricks of a needle, injuries, hurt themselves (Dwrokin, 1994). Antipsychotic medication could also play a part to this insensitivity to pain. It was suggested that pain insensitivity in schizophrenia may be a result of neuroleptic medication (Dwrokin, 1994). One important thing that was mentioned in the paper was that the effect of pain insensitivity in individuals with schizophrenia is brought from congenital insensitivity to pain. Life expectancy seems to be shortened in individuals with congenital pain insensitivity with death occurring from unattended or unrecognized trauma and associated infections. However, these individuals with congenital pain insensitivity can be taught certain strategies to avoid illness and injury. Sensations such as tingling, itching, pressure, warmth, and cold can be taught to