The World Health Organization (2022) states that schizophrenia affects approximately 24 million people in the world, that is, 1 in every 300 people.
Schizophrenia is a mental health disease or condition that is considered a severe disorder in which the person presents different situations that prevent them from leading a fully functional life. Within these situations there are fantasies in which the person really immerses themselves too much, hallucinations, problems in their behavior and other difficulties that often end up abstracting them a little from the real world.
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What are the symptoms?
- The most common or well-known are the hallucinations: ideas that the person has and that they believe they see or hear. In general, the most common hallucinations are auditory, although visual hallucinations also occur.
- There is fantasies in which the person creates imaginary scenarios and situations that are not real and; Furthermore, he gets involved and takes part.
- In other cases there are altered behavior and disordered speech, the person speaks normally, but when paying attention to what he is saying it is evident that there is not really a common thread. Something similar happens in behavior, the things he does do not have much to do with the situation that is happening in reality, this may be due to hallucinations.
- Others are the negative symptoms in which the person finds it difficult, for example, to show what they are feeling and seems a little self-absorbed, distant and has difficulty relating to others.
What causes schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is the result of a genetic and biological predisposition. In most severe mental disorders that is the cause, The person within their genetic material has something that makes them more susceptible to presenting this type of disorders and, over the years, it occurs and manifests itself in different actions. Many times environmental components can accelerate the appearance of symptoms or delay them, depending on each individual.
What risk factors exist?
Well, the main and most key risk factor for presenting schizophrenia is having the biological predisposition. This is very decisive in the presence of the disease, but; besides, There are social and psychological factors that can favor the earlier or more intense appearance of the disorder.
In front of the social being exposed to situations that generate conflict situationsin the Psychologically we refer to the learning processesFor example, how much the person learned to manage and understand their own emotionality to be a little more aware when they are having difficulties with schizophrenia.
Furthermore, there are also types of stimuli that were had in childhood and, later, during youth, for example, many times having enough mental stimulation can help delay the symptoms a littlewhile not having any type of support and stimulation can encourage them to occur earlier.
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