Childhood Schizophrenia
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2019
- In this episode of Inside Schizophrenia our hosts tackle the topic of early onset - or childhood - schizophrenia. Host Rachel Star discusses her personal experiences with symptoms as an adolescent and Dr. Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich from Harvard Medical School discusses some of the latest research. Listen in now!
Thank you for this. There is precious little information about childhood schizophrenia. I had my first paranoid thoughts at 3 when I lost my stuffed aminal and thought my cousin had stolen it and the whole family knew but were keeping it a secret from me. My trust in humans died that day. By 4 I knew I wasn't human. I would wake in the night and see shadows/demons flying around me. I would bang my head and quietly call for my mom, but of course she couldn't hear me. I thought hidden and invisible flying cameras were recording me 24/7 for a show much like the Phil Donahue Show. In the third grade a hill on the playground spoke to me and became my friend. I didn't really have friends; I've always been a loner, so meeting Tracky was wonderful.
I had my first schizophrenic and depressive episode at 14, then another at 18, then another at 34 where I was finally given the schizophrenia diagnosis, and most recently an episode at 43. Nonetheless, I have a Master's degree, a husband, a house, 5 aminals. For the parents out there, there is hope.
😍you go girl, and your giving other people hope
I have an adopted brother who was diagnosed at 7 with it. I regret my parents choice to raise me with him as an adopted sibling. In my situation I do not condone raising a mentally healthy child with a mentally disabled child based on the consequences I've had to endure. I've suffered anxiety and panic disorder,I feel, because of my exposure to him growing up. There is no way he could not have had a serious impact on my developmental development.
My 11 year old stepson has this. Everyone said he was autistic, but his behaviours were more consistent with schizophrenia. He hated trees, spoke to and would see things and people that weren't there, but not with us. Would talk about demons and talk about murder and harming his toddler younger brothers, would laugh uncontrollably then cry and self harm of harm His teachers and school friends and his brothers. His mother recently had him diagnosed and is now on mild anti psychotic medication. Sadly, He now rarely sleeps and has become increasingly withdrawn, barely eats, is distant and angry and emotional and can get extremely violent if he's coming off the medication.
My 10 yr old daughter was diagnosed with this last month. After being baker acted. I am glad for the diagnosis. She is no longer the weird odd ball. Understanding what is happening with her makes my ability to help her stronger. I knew something was different with her since birth. Had her in therapy at 6mths. It was physical therapy at that point. I remember looking at the Dr "something is wrong".
She see things, hears voices, isolated, disorganized ect. "Rats" (she's sees rats crawling on her) and suicidal desires got her baker acted. Thank God she made it through this summer. I am very in tuned with her symptoms now. 👀
She doesn't know her diagnosis, I haven't told her yet. She's 10, I don't want her to feel different. She knows that she has meds and lots of Drs appointments.
She's a lot better and will continue to grow. I have heard her laugh more in the last month than I have her whole life.
She's going to be ok. 💚
I used to see scary faces in trees as a child but I never had any disorders
were you ever evaluated?
Ive had it on acid and smoking weed and paranoia. Vitamin b deficiencies are known to cause some of these symptoms as well. The only time I've had a bad mental health episode was after an antibiotic. The chemicals in everything can affect our brains moods perceptions or lack thereof. Maybe you just had something going on as a kid that lasted a short time.
I've had hallucinations and psychosis since childhood. Went undiagnosed and untreated until adulthood. All the signs were obvious, but no one recognized it. I saw the faces in trees and walls etc too.
Sounds like slightly tripping. Peoples descriptions sounds exactly like what I've had when i have. Taken small doses of acid or mushrooms. I remembering reading some of the symptoms of schitsophrenia are involved in vitamin b deficiencies. Is that something they test for or give kids?
Wow, this is really good! I actually knew from as early as 3 months of age my son was 'different' because of his inability to regulate himself. I'll never forget that expression on his little face in his car seet as if he was saying 'mommy, why are you doing this to me, it really hurts'!
He is now 16, been to about 10 specialists and is still not diagnosed. 'We don't like putting stigma on kids here in Australia'. So he self-medicates with cannabis and other substances.
Sounds like my son. He has Autism and schizophrenia . I think that it"s more common then people think.
Giving a potentially schizophrenic kid weed REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@wendigo8204 He's in drug rehab now and the magistrate has ordered a neuropsychological assessment. God is good!
@@isabelleleopold3655 okay
@@lynnpayne9519 if you don't mind answering, what age diagnosed autism and schizophrenia? My son I knew from 3 months old he was having trouble. Knew he was autistic by 6 months old and questioned if schizophrenia as well because of behaviors which did not fall in the autistic diagnosis. Diagnosis for autism was at a year old. Now he is 7yo and attending public school and we are revisiting the potential of schizophrenia along side the autism.
Had it when I was a kid, had it go untreated for years, as I grew up, it evolved to schizoaffective disorder. It mostly came in the form of "fairies" communicating to me and judging me for going to church since I had this different idea of christianity than my church did. Since this was the case, I was squirming a lot in church and felt very on edge. I just thought I was just bored in sunday school, but looking back, it was definitely a sign of my psychosis.
How about getting rid of the toxic meds, and developing a society where we understand 2% of us are occasionally going to through periods of dramatic behaviour we might have to briefly deal with. Like when a friend is on an acid trip we expect unusual behaviour for day and look out to help them if they need it, we should let schizophrenia just run its course with acceptance and most cases would be mild and only in sever cases step in with medications briefly but focusing on the support help. No support is why it gets so sever.
Dude ... people don't want to be on a bad acid trip day to day in life. They can do really insane things. Meds keep them sane and safe and those around them safe from them. Dealing with it is giving meds to help them not be having a bad trip and unfortunately orange juice doesn't cure a bad trip
I am 16 my mother which I don't know because she left me when I was 2 was schizophrenic and had bipolar depression, and was sexually abused as a child from what my dad told me. Ive always struggled with intrusive thoughts, constantly analyzing everything around me and discussing the details with "itself", but it is my voice, as I always kind of known something was up, I constantly am fighting this but I feel it is futile, as a young kid I heard numbers and beeping coming from car radios if I was setting in it by myself and would see horrible what I refer to as closed eye hallucinations involving vivid gore that just isn't worth explaining. I don't have hallucinations that are very noticeable now, except randomly faint sirens, bells, and strange patterns in my vision, I am constantly talking with myself seemingly, I don't know what to really do, I don't even know why I'm posting this, I'm undiagnosed, I just don't really know what to do.
Im a mom of 13 yr old with this disorder,he was just diagnosed after so many heartbreaking years ,so many tears but our love is much stronger than schizophrenia or anything else..you are so strong for sharing some of your story,i pray healing and peace for you and your family and that you find the right doctors and treatments to live a healthy and prosperous life
THANK it's a very interesting theme
When people struggle with health condition that affects how people think,feel,and behave ,
Those living WITH Schizofrenia, they need compassion and understanding from those around them
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FRIENDS and Family can learn how to support loved ones whith thi condition
Whith the right treatment,people with with schizofrenia can live rewarding lives🤝🤝
Vitamin b deficiencies have long been know to cause symtoms of schitsophrenia. Does any doctor even test for that?
This is amazing!!!!
Are there any support groups for mothers with schizophrenia?
Probably, though we can be friends if you want
The hallucinations of random sounds are called Clang. My sin heard door bell is and his name being called at 9. He heard singing and saw Angels.
Melting faces
I never knew what I was going to was abnormal was my problem. I would see and hear terrifying things and I'd run to my mother who would always tell me I had a bad dream or an overactive imagination because "im so smart" she claims. As a result I didnt know to come to anyone about hearing the TV talking to them or being afraid I was a figure in the book of revelation
(Not addressed to the childhood onset issue; general remarks)
There is a lot of good that comes from our modern understanding of this disease, especially as regards precise mechanisms, the genetic contribution, and treatment options for the more severe cases.
We are at least far beyond the old psychoanalytic "mother is to blame" models, or the mental illness as "myth" or "cultural labeling" theses of decades past.
But I imagine the whole "truth" has always lain somewhere between the preferred science of today and the classical or more romantic notions of yesteryear.
The simple fact is, the entire culture, the economic order along with any conception of a "good life", is in utter disarray.
No one needs the debilitation and suffering of psychosis; lesions on the brain and a life devoid of purpose or any trace of promise or fulfillment come to pure tragedy.
But, outside of interventions designed to merely placate the condition, or to comfort the patient, most other recommendations take the form of preparing the patient for a kind of "soft" entry into a conventional work routine, or providing for the "peer" support and social interaction of what is, still, a conventional, convenient, familiarizing kind of environment. Or perhaps only something familiar, safe, and consoling for ourselves -- the normal population, those otherwise bothered, or irritated, by the "unsanitary" nature of the old demon.
Our social priorities are a shambles; we provide almost nothing in the way of educating the compassionate, reasonable person to a sense of individual initiative, so that we do not just hope for, but absolutely demand, a radical re-conception of how, and even why, we continue to exist at all as a species.
There is no nature that is natural to the human being; so, no unnatural nature.
Though we continue to ignore, and exacerbate, what mystery of the divine, or divined, purpose there should be in the least, the most afflicted, amongst us.