How likely is it to become schizophrenic?

While this is higher than in the general population, where the chance is about 1 in 100, it suggests genes are not the only factor influencing the development of schizophrenia.

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Can a normal person suddenly develop schizophrenia?

In some people, schizophrenia appears suddenly and without warning. But for most, it comes on slowly, with subtle warning signs and a gradual decline in functioning, long before the first severe episode.

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Who is most at risk of schizophrenia?

Risk factors
  • Having a family history of schizophrenia.
  • Some pregnancy and birth complications, such as malnutrition or exposure to toxins or viruses that may impact brain development.
  • Taking mind-altering (psychoactive or psychotropic) drugs during teen years and young adulthood.

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Can you live a successful life with schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia treatment includes medication, therapy, social and family support, and the use of social services. Treatment must be ongoing, as this is a chronic illness without a cure. When schizophrenia is treated and managed over the long-term, most people can live normal, productive, and fulfilling lives.

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What is the life expectancy of a schizophrenic?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the decline in life expectancy among people with more severe mental illness ranges from 10–25 years . Most studies of schizophrenia show a life expectancy reduction of 10–20 years.

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What's it like to live with #schizophrenia?

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What triggers schizophrenia?

The exact causes of schizophrenia are unknown. Research suggests a combination of physical, genetic, psychological and environmental factors can make a person more likely to develop the condition. Some people may be prone to schizophrenia, and a stressful or emotional life event might trigger a psychotic episode.

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How do you know if you are developing schizophrenia?

Early signs of schizophrenia may include:
  • Developmental delays in childhood.
  • Struggles during school.
  • Suspiciousness of other people.
  • Decreased self-care and poor personal hygiene.
  • Social isolation and increased introversion.
  • Disorganized thinking and problems recognizing cause-and-effect.
  • Inappropriate social behavior.

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Can stress cause schizophrenia?

Highly stressful or life-changing events may sometimes trigger schizophrenia. These can include: being abused or harassed. losing someone close to you.

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Do schizophrenics know they are schizophrenic?

Unfortunately, most people with schizophrenia are unaware that their symptoms are warning signs of a mental disorder. Their lives may be unraveling, yet they may believe that their experiences are normal. Or they may feel that they're blessed or cursed with special insights that others can't see.

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What does mild schizophrenia look like?

You could have: Hallucinations: Seeing or hearing things that aren't there. Delusions: Mistaken but firmly held beliefs that are easy to prove wrong, like thinking you have superpowers, are a famous person, or people are out to get you. Disorganized speech: Using words and sentences that don't make sense to others.

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Do schizophrenics know they are hallucinating?

It is possible to experience hallucinations while being aware that they aren't real. As with delusions, this would require a meta-awareness of the unreality of what appears to be a real experience.

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How rare is schizophrenia in Australia?

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that causes people to experience reality in a different way. It affects one in 100 Australians and is a highly stigmatized, often misunderstood illness.

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How common is schizophrenia in Australia?

How common is schizophrenia? Schizophrenia affects roughly 20 million people worldwide (5). In Australia, schizophrenia affects around 2.4 per 1000 people. It is slightly more common in men compared to women (6).

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Am I at high risk for schizophrenia?

If one parent has the condition, it raises your chances of developing schizophrenia by about 13 percent. If your identical twin has the illness, you have a roughly 50 percent chance of developing schizophrenia. If both of your parents have schizophrenia, you have a 40 percent likelihood of developing the illness.

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Can you be mildly schizophrenic?

Residual Schizophrenia

This specific type is characterized by when an individual doesn't display positive symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia (hallucinations, delusional thinking), although they still have the negative symptoms or more mild schizophrenia symptoms (no expression of emotions, strange speech).

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What is borderline schizophrenia?

Symptoms of Borderline Schizophrenia

Level of functioning in work, interpersonal connection, or self-care is impaired by the symptoms for a significant portion of time. Change in functioning is significant compared to previous level of functioning. Continuous signs of the disturbance for a six-month period.

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Am I schizophrenic or just paranoid?

The difference between a paranoid schizophrenic and a paranoid personality is the lack of hallucinations and delusions in the paranoid personality. In other words, they are suspicious about the motives of others, but they do not hear voices or have visual hallucinations found in schizophrenia.

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Has anyone ever been cured of schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness that has no cure. It causes symptoms of psychosis, including hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking and speech, abnormal behaviors, and changes in emotional affect. While this condition cannot be cured, it can be successfully treated.

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Can anxiety cause schizophrenia?

Although some people with schizophrenia suffer anxiety, it is impossible for people with anxiety disorders to develop schizophrenia as a result of their anxiety disorder. Anxiety sufferers should be reassured that they cannot develop schizophrenia as part of their anxiety state, no matter how bad the anxiety becomes.

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Can you prevent getting schizophrenia?

There is no sure way to prevent schizophrenia — but there are ways to prevent or reduce symptoms, such as taking medication, avoiding substance use, and receiving therapy. Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that involves recurrent episodes of psychosis (a loss of contact with reality).

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Is living with schizophrenia scary?

Schizophrenia is a condition that can cause severe disruptions in a person's life because it affects their connection to reality. That means a person with schizophrenia has trouble knowing what's real and what isn't. That can be a scary and very disorienting feeling.

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Are there any famous schizophrenics?

Eduard Einstein

The youngest child of Albert Einstein was studying medicine when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 20. He spent many years in and out of a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, Switzerland.

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What is the most common death in schizophrenia?

“Adults with schizophrenia are about 10 times more likely to die of COPD and 7 times more likely to die of diabetes,” says a co-author of the study, Mark Olfson, MD, a psychiatrist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City.

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