CHILDHOOD SCHIZOPHRENIA
...ce of thought, deterioration of daily functioning, disturbances of language, perceptual disorders, inappropriate emotion, confused sense of self, disrupted volition, detachment, and Atypical motor behavior. Disturbance of thought: When they believe that one’s thoughts are being controlled by another person or that when they hear someone speak they think that there is a meaning behind it. Deterioration of daily functioning: When the person decides not to care for themselves, such as doing bad in school, not taking a shower or wear clean clothes. Disturbance of language: When the use of neologism or new words with obscure meaning is used in an inappropriate or meaningless way. Perceptual disorder: When the individual is not able to distinguish from relevant to irrelevant and becomes confused or overwhelmed. Inappropriate emotion: lack of affect, unable to express one’s emotions. Confused sense of self: unable to distinguish between the world and oneself. Disrupted volition: Inability to complete a course of action. Detachment: indifferent to the external world and a preoccupation to the illogical inner world. Atypical motor behavior: A variety of responses, which include hyperactivity and rigid posturing. These nine characteristics are not all present in every schizophrenic case they differ greatly. Childhood schizophrenia is a rare disease that occurs to one in 10,000 children. Since it’s such an uncommon psychiatric illness. It’s very difficult to recognize it in its early phases. One percent of all schizophrenic disorders manifests before the age of ten and four percent before the age of 15. Though it’s a rare happening schizophrenia can occur to a child at the age of five-years-old. Boys are usually affected more frequently than girls are before the age of 14, with about two boys being affected for very girl. Children who have schizophrenia have a higher risk of in taking drugs or alcohol. They may also have behavior problems, severe depression, or a neurological problem such as seizures says Anne Brown (1999). Also there are signs that children show us to let us know that they have problems. The child will have speech disturbances, will have the inability to distinguish dreams from reality, confused thinking, vivid and bizarre thoughts and ideas, seeing and hearing voices that are not real, extreme moodiness, and behaving like a younger child. If you see a child with these signs, then he may have schizophrenia. The neurodevelopmental damage in children is much greater...