What are the financial costs associated with treating schizophrenia?
The recently conducted national survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing highlights that to the Government, schizophrenia costs $1.45 billion a year. However, to the broader community, the financial costs increase up to $2.25 billion a year. Yet the real burden of the illness is carried by those who have schizophrenia and their carers. How is schizophrenia currently being treated? Schizophrenia is being treated by many methods including psychotherapy, talking therapy, occupational therapy, social therapy and so on. But the careful use of medication allows most people with schizophrenia to leave hospital and live within the community. How do antipsychotic medications work? Antipsychotic medications are used because they change the chemistry of the brain. People with schizophrenia are known to have alteration in important chemicals in the brain and, with the aid of medication, these chemicals are put back into balance, which return it more towards normal. Why do antipsychotics cause side ef
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