Personal experience: Diagnosis and dilemmas –what happens when we diagnose patients with the label ‘schizophrenia’

Abstract

The author briefs his personal experience of diagnosis and dilemmas while diagnose patients with the label 'schizophrenia'. At some point during the first onset of schizophrenia, family members are going to ask the question 'What is wrong with him (or her)?' The result is going to be a diagnosis or medical explanation in some form. Even today, with years of firsthand experience of schizophrenia, the author is still unsure about how to best approach this thorny issue. The problem is that it is easy to get the wrong first impression from all the terms and labels that surround a mental illness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)