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Schizophrenia
I feel she is suffering from Schizophrenia what would be the first step to diagnose and first level of treatment
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Dr. Sahithi V
Neuropsychiatrist
8 yrs exp
Tirupati
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness,which has to be diagnosed carefully based on symptom criteria. It is a lifelong diagnosis in most of the cases, so diagnosis requires detailed evaluation.once it is diagnosed,antipsychotic medications are the treatment of choice
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