Question:
I'm doing somewhat of a project on Schizophrenia, and I was wondering if
it could be brought on by certain Social causes..?
By social causes, I'm referring to things like stress, relationships,
etc..
Answer:
probably not from social causes. nope. even if social causes were
responsible for inducing an episode in an individual, the individual
would have to be predisposed to sz. i guess going off to war also can bring it on, judging from the time
i spent working at a vetrean's hospital. a lot of mental illness
presents after/during exposure to combat.
Schizophrenia is a biological illness just like diabetes. In that I
mean that it is a chemical inbalance in the body. In schizophrenia it is
caused by brain damage or genetics. It is not a illness do to social
causes. Just like diabetes is not caused by social things. Nothing of the kind has ever been proven. It is simply accepted on faith
by those who consider personal responsibility demeaning. I am speaking
not only of the responsibility of the labeled individual, but also that of
family members, some of whom are abusive, and cling to biological
explanations to avoid facing up to what they have done. Emotional problems can be every bit as debilitating as actual illnesses,
even to the point of causing hallucinations. That does not mean that they
are illnesses.
Also, many people who have been diagnosed with Schizophrenia have
absolutely nothing wrong with them, and are quite content just being a
little odd. There, the real problem is with the bigoted psychiatrists who
don't approve of other people seeing things a little differently than they
do.
I think this is a bit to simple. There are numerous hints to biological,
social and psychological factors being connected to the cause of the
illness. If you read the ICD10, you will find in the foreword to the
chapter of schizophrenia that it is not even sure that the different
forms are an entity. If schizophrenia were a kind of cerebral diabetes
why aren't the treatment results better?
Would you care to cite some sources for this claim? Are we to believe
this because you're an expert who can't even spell "due" correctly? I would love to cite some sources but I will have to go to the library
to get them. So I can't spell sue me. Most of the information I have
is gleamed from the best sources, hospitals and doctors. I am a
diagnozied schizphrenic and have been hospitalized many times. In the
hospital the try to teach a person as much about the illness as
possible. So unless the are being untruthful I am to believe that my
information is correct. If you have other sources I would love to see
them, unless you can only attack my poor spelling. My astonishment comes from discovering there is someone who doesn't know
that schizophrenia is a biological illness. Have you been living in a
hole in the ground for the past 10 years or so?
Here is a good link for you to read to get up on the latest research in
schizophrenia:
http://www.schizophrenia.com/school/school.html
I have learned that while the predisposition to have schizophrenia may
be inherited it usually takes traumatic events in a person's life to
activate the illness. This is certainly true in my case.
