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What is schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder or group of disorders thataffects the normal functioning of the brain and severely impairsthinking, emotion, and behavior. Doctors do not… (MORE)

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What does schizophrenia do?

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 n… (MORE)

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What do you do if you have schizophrenia?

If you have reason to believe that you - or a loved one - has schizophrenia, the first thing you need to do is get to a professional (either a psychiatrist or licensed psychot… (MORE)

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What can schizophrenia do to you?

it stops the thing in your brain that differentiates dreams from reality and makes everything either real or surreal to a certain being. It causes voices in their head, halluc… (MORE)

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What is the defition of schizophrenia?

A psychotic disorder that involves severe disturbances in thinking, speech, perception, emotion and behaviour. This term was introduced by a Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler… (MORE)

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Can you get schizophrenia without a relative with schizophrenia?

Yes. Although most people with schizophrenia have at least one relative with schizophrenia, there are some who have no relatives with schizophrenia.

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What is childhood schizophrenia?

Childhood schizophrenia is defined as a case of schizophrenia in aperson younger than 13 (or, more rarely, 18) years old. Only about2 percent of cases of schizophrenia occur i… (MORE)

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Why do you get Schizophrenia?

To this day, there is no totally verified answer as to why people "get" schizophrenia. Some people claim that the mother has a certain infection or virus during pregnancy. …Some claim that chemicals, such as epinephrine in the body have certain effects on children that cause them to get schizophrenia. Still others say that it has to do with the frontal cortex and development of that area of the brain, especially in adolescence. Last but not least some researchers suggest that psycho-social factors such as childhood trauma may cause someone to develop schizophrenia. Now, because we are seeing more late-onset schizophrenia with patients in their fifties, our thinking is complicated because people now question why it's onset is so late in some people but not in others. Really, the totally factual answer has to be, "We don't know." . Schizophrenia is not a mystery: Schizophrenia is not a mystery. It looks mysterious because our very concept of mind and mental disorders is wrong. Understanding the mind: We know that god is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. However, looking god from this angle makes god look very mysterious. Hinduism says that to understand god one has to believe that 'I am the supreme god'. For similar reasons, to understand mind we have to believe that mind has as real an existence as the body. The material mind is nothing but the Isometric component of our skeletal muscular system. This component has properties exactly the same as that of the mind. We can understand the mind easily by knowing the properties of the Isometric component of our skeletal muscular system. However, people who want to keep god an eternal mystery want to believe that god is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. Similarly people who want to keep mind an eternal mystery wish to believe that it is abstract and yet want to study it scientifically! No doubt, mind remains an eternal mystery. Understanding mental disorders: We believe that the mind is the same as the brain. This concept can't explain how people who don't even know that they have a brain can control their mind. We can't understand mental disorders by studying the brain. Most of the so called mental disorders are actually disorders of movement i.e. they are behavior disorders. Thus, they are better understood by studying the Isometric component of our skeletal muscular system. The mystery behind Schizophrenia: We believe that we are created to use reasoning. However, human thinking is very complicated. It is three dimensional. Time, space and person are the three dimensions that we use for thinking. The person - dimension leads to seven different kinds of thinking. Since we want to understand the behavior of people using reasoning only, the behavior of some people looks mysterious even to scientists who are studying mental disorders. Therefore, Schizophrenia is not as mysterious as most people want to believe. It looks mysterious because we want to understand it using reasoning only, which is a next to impossible. . Schizophrenia is form of mental illness which has many causes, spreading from biology, genetics, neurology, viral infection and social influence. There is no absolute explanation for why people get Schizophrenia, or why only certain people get it. Psychologists have theorised many different contributing factors which do seem to be viable, some more than others. But in the end, a complete list of factors may be impossible to obtain as our world has an infinite amount of factors, and our mind and body has an infinite different ways in which to react to them. Some of the factors which have been positively correlated to Schizophrenia are: - Reduced brain stem size when compared to those without the condition - Neurological disorder - Brain damage - Genetic inheritance - Childhood trauma - Adult trauma - Drug abuse - Environmental factors (such as Socio-Economic Status, living conditions and the behaviours and personalities of others around you) (MORE)

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What will schizophrenia do to you?

You will go really crazy most of the time but you sometimes won't be able to tell the difference between reality and fantasy in most cases this is a scary thing to have :(

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When do you get schizophrenia?

The average age of onset of schizophrenia is 18 in men and 25 in women.