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How many years could schizophrenia reduce your life by?
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Schizophrenia reduces life expectancy by 12 to 15 years.
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Is Schizophrenia degenerative?
Schizophrenia is not specifically a disease of aging, and generally appears fairly early in life, in the teenage years or the 20's, so it is not a degenerative disease, even though it is a very serious disease which can cause a person's quality of life to degenerate.
What is the average life expectancy of someone with schizophrenia?
The average life expectancy of someone with schizophrenia is 12-15 years less than that of the general population; the total life expectancy depends on where you live. This may be caused by high rates of suicide, overweight and obesity, smoking, and sedentary lifestyle.
Schizophrenia is a life taking disease?
while schizophrenia in and of itself is not life threatening in a medical sense like cancer, it can cause suicidal behavior, or suicide.
Why is schizophrenia termed a major psychiatric disturbance?
Schizophrenia is termed a major psychiatric disturbance because people with schizophrenia have great difficulty functioning in everyday life. Schizophrenia is a major psychiatric disturbance because it is a very serious problem.
How does smoking affect someone's life?
Second hand smoke can reduce your life expectancy by seven to eight years.
What are two hypotheses for schizophrenia?
The two hit hypothesis of schizophrenia postulates that there are two different yet necessary malfunctions in the brain that cause schizophrenia. The first happens while a baby is still inside the womb. This could be from faulty genetics, bad brain cells, lack of oxygen during birth or even drugs or infections the mother might have in her body. The second hit happens later in life due to the brain changing as it grows, a major life stressor such as a young adult going to college or taking on a job after high school. The brain must be faulty and unable to process stress correctly (1st hit) so that when life stress happens (2nd) hit schizophrenia symptoms begin to come out.
Are you born schizophrenic?
No, you can't be born with schizophrenia. Sometimes people confuse having schizophrenia at a very early age with being born with schizophrenia. For example, January "Jani" Schofield was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of six, and she is often falsely said to have been born with schizophrenia. However, there is no research that states that you can be born with schizophrenia.
How do you know if you have a predisposition of Schizophrenia?
You may have a predisposition towards schizophrenia if someone in your close family has or had schizophrenia, if you are a fantasy-prone person, if you do not have much need for a social life, or if you often find yourself believing in strange or fantastical things. Keep in mind that these factors do not mean that you will develop schizophrenia; they just mean that you may be more likely to develop schizophrenia than others.
How does schizophrenia medications help the person live a normal life?
They help with removing the symptoms of schizophrenia. It is easier to function and live normally without hallucinating or having delusions.
What infections cause schizophrenia disorder?
A viral infection during the second trimester of pregnancy can cause the child to develop schizophrenia later in life. Many infections that affect the brain, including meningitis and Lyme disease, can cause psychosis, which is not the same as schizophrenia.
Did jack kerouac have schizophrenia?
No. He was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 20 by a Navy doctor who discharged him as unsuitable for military service. He lacked key symptoms such as hearing voices. He went on to live a life that does not indicate schizophrenia. He died at the age of 47 from complications of alcoholism.
What real-life sufferer from schizophrenia is depicted in the movie A Beautiful Mind?
JOHN NASH
