Schizophrenia?!
Question:
Schizophrenia?
Couple of questions:
(1) When does it usually hit?
(2) Have you ever known someone with schizophrenia? What was that person like before and after its onset?
Answers:
(1) Schizophrenia usually strikes males in late teens and early 20's. Females in late 20's or early 30's. The first onset is often fairly swift and often results in an acute psychiatric hospitalization.
(2) I know many people with schizophrenia. Typically the individual is pretty typical. They have had academic and athletic achievements. Once schizophrenia presented itself, the typically did not return to previous levels of functioning.
Sometime the individual is quite average prior to the first episode. Other times the person has shown some minor oddities causing people to think: "Oh so-in-so is a little odd or different.".
In all but a very few cases, schizophrenia is very treatable with medication and counseling.