Some people with personality disorders may have a complex of problems involving drug and alcohol abuse, self-harm, suicide attempts, and violence on others. Indeed people with personality disorders may be behaviourally disturbed, but again one would have to use one's imagination to use the Mental Health Act. Behavioural therapy is expensive and NHS provision in this area is severely lacking. Treatment Treatment of mental illness is mainly done through the use of drugs. Having said this, drugs should not be seen solely as a means to treat the patient - good practice brings in other disciplines such as nursing care, occupational therapy, art therapy, counselling and rehabilitation.
Schizophrenia is treated mainly with the major tranquillisers.
Depot medication is a slow acting medication administered by means of injection - this is given to patients who have been known to default on oral medication. One dose can be effective for 2 - 3 weeks, the most popular are known as Modecate, Clopixol, Depixol and Haldol. New drugs have now been made available and these have very few side-affects and it seems that the rate of compliance with medication has increased as a result. Hypermania - in its acute stages is usually treated with the major tranquillisers. Even so, people with this condition are usually maintained on the metal lithium and in some cases, this is complemented with one of the major tranquillisers.