14 DAY TRIAL // Schizophrenia patients who display unstable levels of self-esteem are more likely to exhibit poorer responses to treatment than those who have more stable self-esteem. This may account for why some patients are more likely to commit suicide as well.
Broadly, schizophrenia can be described as a medical condition that leads to a breakdown in thought processes. This is oftentimes accompanied by poor emotional responsiveness, paranoia, auditory hallucinations and delusions, among other side-effects, PsychCentral reports.
“Findings clearly attest to a complex, risk/resilience role of the self-concept in the short-term course, and reveal undetected consequences of depressive symptoms in schizophrenia,” Dafna Weinberg says.
She is a graduate student at the Ben-Gurion University Department of Psychology, in Israel. Weinberg led the new study, which analyzed the cases of 89 schizophrenia patients.