First of all, having a traumatic childhood increases the chances of having schizophrenia. A traumatic childhood could either be an emotional, physical or sexual abuse. Either of these abuses is very harmful and has a lasting negative impact on a child's mental health. Having a traumatic childhood leaves scars in the brain that can stay in the brain until the child is grown up. In Janssen research, they tested individuals who were in between the average age of twenty-four that all reported having a type of child abuse (919). In a research about CSA, childhood sexual abuse, they reported: “..those individuals who had been sexually abused were 15 times more likely …show more content…
Having a traumatic childhood, a traumatic brain injury, and the usage of cannabis all are major factors in the causation of schizophrenia. It all affects the brain in different ways; such as leaving a traumatic scar within the brain that could build up once the person is grown up, an injury within the brain that affects the functions of it, and last but not least the use of cannabis that can produce symptoms of the mental illness, are all factors that can cause schizophrenia to