Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it hard to:
· Tell the difference between what is real and not real
· Think clearly
· Have normal emotional responses
· Act normally in social situations
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Schizophrenia is a complex illness. Mental health experts are not sure what causes it. However, genes may play a role.
· Certain events may trigger schizophrenia in people who are at risk for it because of their genes.
· You are more likely to develop schizophrenia if you have a family member with the disease.
Schizophrenia affects both men and women equally. It usually begins in the teen years or young adulthood, but it may begin later in life. It tends to begin later in women, and is more mild.
Childhood-onset schizophrenia begins after age 5. Childhood schizophrenia is rare and can be hard to tell apart from other developmental problems in childhood, such as autism.
Symptoms
Schizophrenia symptoms usually develop slowly over months or years. Sometimes you may have many symptoms, and at other times you may only have a few symptoms.
People with any type of schizophrenia may have trouble keeping friends and working. They may also have problems with anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts or behaviors.
At first, you may have the following symptoms:
· Irritable or tense feeling
· Trouble concentrating
· Trouble sleeping
As the illness continues, you may have problems with thinking, emotions, and behavior, including:
· Bizarre behaviors
· Hearing or seeing things that are not there or seeing things that are not there (hallucinations)
Delusion- Believes that are not based on reality ( Speculations )
· Isolation
· Lack of emotion (flat affect)
· Problems paying attention
· Strongly held beliefs that are not real (delusions)Thoughts that "jump" between different topics (“loose associations
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