Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Screening
The CAGE-AID questionnaire is a simple test that checks for signs of alcohol dependence. It can be a useful tool that only requires a minute or two of time.
Mental Health Screening Tools
Self-care matters, especially for your mental health. If you’re feeling down, overwhelmed, or hopeless, it’s important to understand if you are dealing with anxiety and what to do about it.
Behavioral Health Conditions
Our behavioral health section provides a number of services and programs to help those in need.
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Screening
The CAGE-AID questionnaire is a simple test that checks for signs of alcohol dependence. It can be a useful tool that only requires a minute or two of time.
Mental Health Screening Tools
Self-care matters, especially for your mental health. If you’re feeling down, overwhelmed, or hopeless, it’s important to understand if you are dealing with anxiety and what to do about it.
Behavioral Health Conditions
Our behavioral health section provides a number of services and programs to help those in need.
Schizophrenia
Overview
People with schizophrenia, a serious mental illness that affects how a person behaves, feels, and thinks, may lead to stress for caretakers. These symptoms can become crippling and persistent if left untreated. There are treatments available that can help individuals to manage this mental illness and be able to participatein work, school, and relationships.
Symptoms
Usually, schizophrenia is diagnosed in late teen years to early thirties. Typically, males are diagnosed in late adolescence to early twenties and females are diagnosed early twenties to early thirties. Schizophrenia is diagnosed after a psychosis event. These events can consist of changes in hearing, smell, touch, and vision known as hallucinations and delusions. This causes individuals to feel like they are experiencing another world and they lack a sense of reality. These can cause changes in behavior, thinking, and ability to interact with others are the onset symptoms of schizophrenia.
What Contributes to the Development of Schizophrenia?
Genetics:
- Although, an individual can get schizophrenia if it runs in the family. However, this does not mean that every individual in the family with be diagnosed with schizophrenia. There is no singular gene that causes schizophrenia, but the combination of different genes.
Brain Activity and Structure:
- Variations in brain structure, activity, and connections between neurotransmitters may lead to the development of schizophrenia. These variations can begin to develop before birth and the changes that occur to an individual’s brain during puberty may prompt the onset and symptoms of schizophrenia
Environment:
- The connection between an environmental factors and genetic risks may lead to the development of schizophrenia. Environmental factors include poverty, lack of care before birth, and traumatic surroundings.
Treatment
To help lessen the strength of psychotic symptoms individuals can take antipsychotic medications. These can be taken daily or through injections that occur once or twice a month.
Resources
Let's Talk Stigma
Many people suffer from a mental health diagnosis in silence because of the discrimination thta goes along with it. Let's Talk Stigma is starting a conversation to end the stigma surrounding mental illness