Make a Positive Change With Help for Schizophrenia at Miami Hypnosis & Therapy

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. Management of schizophrenia as well as helping someone with schizophrenia can be difficult to navigate alone. Schizophrenia can distort thoughts, resulting in changes in emotions and irrational behavior. Others may perceive a person with schizophrenia as having lost touch with reality. 

The exact cause of schizophrenia is unknown, but some people may be more prone. A stressful or emotional event may trigger a psychotic episode such as a death, divorce, or abuse, which could be physical, sexual, or emotional.


Signs and Symptoms of Schizophrenia

Finding help for schizophrenia is imperative to prevent the symptoms from worsening. Symptoms usually start between the ages of 16-30:

  • Hallucinations
      • Seeing or hearing things that do not exist, and the most common is hearing voices;
  • Delusions
      • False beliefs that are not based on reality;
  • Disorganized or abnormal behavior
      • This behavior could range from childlike actions to unpredictable agitation
  • Disorganized or abnormal thinking and speech
      • Communication can be impaired, causing partial or completely unrelated responses to occur;
  • Lack of emotions
    • This emotionless response could include speaking in a monotone voice or not changing facial expressions.

Getting help for schizophrenia or helping someone with schizophrenia can be achieved with therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), both of which deal directly with thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Management of Schizophrenia

Treating schizophrenia may include therapies such as CBT and NLP. Both forms of treatment should be done consistently on an on-going basis as part of an ongoing management plan for the client.

CBT for Schizophrenia

  • CBT provides behavioral coping skills that are learned through ongoing one-on-one therapy sessions.
  • CBT helps to uncover the root cause of the schizophrenic episodes as well as their triggers.
  • CBT offers help for schizophrenia by teaching the client coping strategies for dealing with symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations.

NLP for Schizophrenia

  • NLP is not hypnotherapy but rather a conscious use of language to help a person change their thoughts and behaviors.
  • NLP is founded on the idea that people operate from internal "maps" of the world that they have learned through their sensory experiences.
  • NLP uses behavioral, perceptual, and communication techniques to help change thoughts and actions.
  • NLP helps the person learn new behaviors to override prior ones that have been acquired over time, which can then imprint on the mind in helping to develop new patterns of thoughts.

Frequently Asked Questions about Help for Schizophrenia



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