The Role Of Schizophrenia In Young Adults

At the age five, John was a normal kid. Until one stormy afternoon, he started having delusions of imaginary monsters, distorting reality in his eyes. When his parents got home, only to find five-year-old John on the floor paralyzed and scared. He was rushed to the emergency room, only to find out that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. His life would change forever. John was diagnosed with a rare mental illness known as schizophrenia. This disease is very uncommon but can be active when the victim turns the age of five and older; usually it becomes triggered in their late teens. Schizophrenia can simply be defined as a chronic brain disabling disorder that renders a person’s mind useless with distortion of reality and other symptoms (Spearing
Most people who are outside the scientific field are mostly unaware of the causes of schizophrenia. Many doctors and scientists can say that schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. This mental illness can affect both men and women equally but mainly affects young men first, usually in their late teens to early twenties. Schizophrenia can cause many symptoms, including distortion of reality, hallucinations/illusions, delusions, distorted thinking and many more (Spearing 1, 2). As a result, Schizophrenia is hard to diagnose because of the many similar symptoms it has with other mental illnesses. Scientists believe that the leading genetic factors of schizophrenia has at least one person who also has schizophrenia by heredity. Research suggests that people who have close family members who have be diagnosed with schizophrenia have a higher chance of also being diagnosed in the future as well. In science terms, if your identical twin, for example, has schizophrenia, you have a 40-50% chance of also having it. Rather than if your parent(s) has schizophrenia, you have a 10% chance (Spearing 5). In other words, if you have a close family member with schizophrenia, you have a higher chance of being diagnosed with it. A plethora of studies have been shown by researchers to conclude that schizophrenia is linked to environmental
Many kids who suffer from schizophrenia have almost similar lives to those of schizophrenic adults. Furthermore, a study by many scientists have concluded that children diagnosed with schizophrenia don’t show symptoms until they turn 5 or older. But however, they do show most if not all symptoms, gradually instead of all at once, which is how most of it works (Schizophrenia 1). As a result, most families don’t have to worry about changing their lifestyle until sometime. Families who have schizophrenic members have had to learn how to deal and carefully treat them. In fact, doctors who discharge schizophrenic patients have made sure that their families will have the proper education (psychoeducation) to make sure that nothing will happen to trigger any relapses. They may avoid relapses by using different treatment adherence strategies and using various coping techniques (Spearing 11). Because doctors though it wise for the schizophrenic patients to be discharged for their hospital care, many families find it difficult for them to educate themselves and avoid relapses. Society has had many viewpoints on mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia. For instance, many people who see people with schizophrenia or any mental illness have