schizofrenia? questions again.?
Question:
but, do you think that there are some predefined behaviour or precautions that could be taken to prevent schizo from a child's life? can the parents avoid shcizo by behaving in a manner? for instance, if mum removes all the negative things that could produce stress for the child (boy at age 7), could this help to protect the child from schizo?
and if this schizo is genetic in the males of the family and does not affect the women, is the baby girl is also at the risk of being schizo?
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this is what i added on to the original answer earlier?
it is hard to tell if a child is going to be a schizophrenic during childhood because of the imagination factor, at least as far as bizzare behoavior is concerned. i would pay more attention to if your child is extremely quiet and reclusive or something like that. schizoid personality can develop into schizophrenia. symptoms of this are avoiding relationships, unresponsive and unegaged. however, some children are shy, so it is hard to tell. i would concentrate on exposing your children to as many group and one on one social situations as possible. i would also talk alot around your child. read to him and ask him questions. teach him words and ways of expressing him. ask him how he feels. and most importantly try to make it clear to him that you love him no matter what he feels. there is really no way to prevent schizophrenia genetically per se, but i think doing these things could be good preventative measures.
also you mentioned removing all stress from the child. this would be beneficial to some extent if you were removing him from unneccesary stress (like abuse, not to suggest that is there, just an ex)But the thing is is that if you somehow successfully removed all stress from his life he would lack the resources he needed in life to cope with it, especially during adolescence. i would just try to let things be at a healthy, normal balance. if you begin to think he has trouble dealing with stress on a normal level already, then you may consider taking him to a childrens counselor just to be safe. dealing with stress has a lot to do with it. generally people develop schizophrenia (or psychosis for that matter) when the stress they have is greater than their ability to cope with it. it is basically like a personality de-integration of sorts. it is the brain trying to cope with emotional overload. in a sense it could be considered a survival mechanism, if you can see it that way. so being attentive to healthy personality INTEGRATION, especially during pre teen and teen years is key.
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I've never seen schizo just affect males in a family and there would always be a chance of a female getting even if that were the case. To answer your first question, all children are different and because schizo doesn't usually show up until early adulthood I would say that the childhood stressors would not predispose that child as much as adulthood stressors would, which leads me to believe that the genetic predisposition would have to be there genetically to begin with (not all young adults have schizophrenia)
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