Anything can happen in life. Our well-being does not always depend only on ourselves, as there is something before which we are completely powerless.
What is schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a very common mental illness. With him, consciousness, perception, thinking, motivation, human activity are constantly changing, preventing him from dwelling on a particular state. Surprisingly, it remains mysterious even today, when many dissertations have been written on this topic, a huge number of various experiments and experiments have been carried out, and many patients suffering from this disease have been studied. Some people think that schizophrenia is treatable, but there are many experts who are willing to argue with this.
Nobody is protected from schizophrenia. This applies to both children and adults. True, it is worth noting that the first symptoms of it, as a rule, appear at the age of sixteen to twenty-five years. Much less likely to occur in schizophrenia is people who have lived to be forty years old, and men are much more likely to get it than women. Schizophrenia - heredity and more. It was thought so before. Today, there is evidence based on which we can conclude that the reasons may be hidden not only in genes.
Schizophrenia: a disease everyone needs to know.
At the very beginning, people susceptible to this disease can notice a slight inhibition in actions, which over time increases and intensifies until the patient begins to fall into a very ordinary stupor. Also, auditory hallucinations are characteristic of this disease. This symptom can manifest itself in different ways: in some cases, it seems to the patient that the voices are directly in his head (sometimes they can even induce him to take some action), in other cases, the person constantly seems to be talking to someone beside.
Patients with schizophrenia, as a rule, are not able to distinguish between emotions: love and hate, fun and longing - they are able to experience these opposite feelings at the same time. Symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations. In the beginning, a person sees just separate images, and in the later stages of this disease, he is already struggling to separate reality from fiction.
In addition to the above, the symptoms in this case include:
- obsessions ;
- rave;
- unreasonable arousal;
- unconnected stream of thoughts;
- indifference to what is happening.
Schizophrenia: heredity or not?
This is a difficult question. For many years now, people have been trying to understand why some people get schizophrenia. Heredity and only heredity - this was the opinion of leading experts in this field, but the results of recent studies suggest that things are somewhat different.
Previously, it was believed that schizophrenia can only get sick with people in the family who have this ailment in one way or another manifested. In the event that the patient did not find schizophrenic relatives, they came to the conclusion that the disease still exists in the genus, it simply did not appear earlier (or the patient simply does not know about such cases).
Undoubtedly, everyone with schizophrenia in the family should think about their mental health. In this case, heredity plays an important role, but one should not assume that in a person who is ill with her, all descendants will also be born sick. It is possible that the disease will no longer manifest at all.
To date, it has been proven that heredity becomes the cause of this mental illness in only fifty percent of cases. In the remaining half of cases, this ailment occurs due to mutation of the germ cells of the parents. The reasons for this mutation are unknown today, but there is every reason to argue that no one is safe from it.