Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a truly complex mental disorder that changes the way a person feels, thinks, and perceives reality. Its symptoms fall into three main categories: positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive symptoms.
The positive symptoms oftentimes involve symptoms of psychosis, like hallucinations and even delusions. Negative symptoms, on the other hand, are known to “take away” the nature of a person. They could include many things, such as a serious lack of motivation, no emotional expression, and the inability to feel any kind of pleasure.
Cognitive symptoms, on the other hand, might cause difficulties with concentration, memory, and even attention. All these symptoms lead to the individual’s disability.
Here are the factors that might make someone more likely to suffer from schizophrenia:
- genetics and mental illness in the family;
- a toxic family environment;
- childhood trauma, which could include emotional, se*ual or even physical abuse, neglect, poverty, bullying, the loss of a loved family member, domestic violence, and insecure attachment;
- maternal or fetal malnutrition or infection;
- Maternal smoking;
- having a father who’s older than 55 years old;
- being born in the winter or spring (it’s supposedly linked to a vitamin D deficiency).
