How Does Schizophrenia Affect Teens

Schizophrenia is common but deadly and affecting teens almost every day. schizophrenia, also known as a fragmented mind, is affecting teen in dangerous ways. (Gur, Johnson 4) Thousands of teens are diagnosed with schizophrenia every year. schizophrenia continues to create new challenges by affecting the lives of teenagers and continues to be a complicated mental illness. Schizophrenia can make teens start to disconnect from reality, they can stand a rare chance to be able to live a normal life. Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that corrupts the process of thinking, having the emotional responsiveness and contacting reality. (Gur, Johnson 4) Schizophrenia often occurs at vulnerable times in teens lives, they often

Studies show that thirty to forty percent of teen that show symptoms of schizophrenia will develop it. (citation) Though it's hard to prepare for because some are symptoms are just what normal teenagers do (Citation). Positive symptoms refers to a person's culture and religious factors. (citation) Due to that, some teenagers have hallucination. Hallucinations occur in clear consciousness, when the teen is alert. Though they don't have and diagnose significance for mental health problems. Teens with schizophrenia may also suffer with delusions. They believe that information from television, books and media are directed towards them (Hayward and Jones 2l). Most teens with schizophrenia do not want help at first diagnosis of the disease. They do not want help from anyone, they believe that they are fine. Sometimes teens with schizophrenia usually have disruptive speaking patterns. Sometimes even shift suddenly from one topic to another. They also tend to experience voices, Sometimes two or more voices commenting on a person's behavior. Negative symptoms are apathy, reductions in speech, blunt responses, social withdrawal, and bad social performances. (citation) [Negative symptoms regards to the person's personal situation. Such as mood difficulties and medication side effects] (rephrase). Some symptoms like these can be mistaken for something else like psychosis. It can be a one time thing while for others it's the first sign of schizophrenia. Most teens have wrong idea about schizophrenia. They hear the words mental illness and think the worst. Though there are some very bad aspects of schizophrenia, not all are as bad as other teens think. When many teens hear schizophrenia they think of split personalities. Though that is only common is fiction and does not relate to schizophrenia at all. Though it can be severe, that is not always case. Those who are ignorant