how can i tell if i have paranoid schizophrenia?

Question

Can you have paranoid schizophrenia as a child?

Answer 1

See psychiatrist: because it is hard if not impossible to diagnose yourself. Many symptoms of schizophrenia are not apparent to the person suffering from schizophrenia. Self-diagnosis may be misleading.

Answer 2

Information: Mayo clinic defines schizophrenia as “a severe brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior.” paranoia is a significant theme in this type of schizophrenia. Please see full article at :.

Answer 3

Get evaluated: I would go talk to a psychiatrist or a primary care doctor that you trust about what you are going through. There may be more than one possible explanation. I hope the best for you!

Answer 4

Why risk guessing?: Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that can affect judgment. It's also a condition that many misunderstand or know little about, ; as a result, those affected by it cn feel stigmatized. People like law professor elyn saks are changing this by sharing her experiences. She's helped those who love her ; everyone else better understand what it's like living w/ a brain disorder: http://bit.Ly/n2lelx.

Answer 5

Psychosis and more: Schizophrenia is a mental illness that causes symptoms such as hallucination and false beliefs (delusions). Worst thing about schizophrenia is that even when hallucinations and delusions are resolved, lack of motivation and cognitive problems will remain debilitating. Rehabilitation is needed to address these problems even when psychotic symptoms have been controlled with medication.

Answer 6

Irrelevant : Schizophrenia was historically classified into sub types including paranoid type. This approach proved to have little impact on the clinical care of the concision and was recently abandoned in the 5th edition of the diagnostic and clinical manual. What used to be termed schizophrenia paranoid type is now termed schizophrenia.

Answer 7

Symptoms will worsen: Without treatment, long term suffering is typical. Since it is not possible for the patient to tell the difference between real and hallucinations, value of treatment may not be apparent to the patient, especially at first. Without support of family and friends, treatment tends to be spotty, resulting in extra suffering. Medications are not perfect, but they do help. Talk to the psychiatrist.

Answer 8

Schizophrenia: There is a great risk of decompensation, becoming unstable, hallucinating, and needing emergency level care if not involuntary hospitalization, depending on severity of symptoms.

Answer 9

Leave that to the dr: Encourage that person to seek out an assessment by a physician. Defer the discussion about discussing specific diagnoses to the physician.

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