I know there’s plenty of theories to sort through, but what do you think is the root cause? Seems like almost all of us come from a broken home of some sort, and similar stories. My theory is that stress reopens childhood wounds, which kind of causes a PTSD like episode, considering there’s a lot of parallels between the two illnesses, what do you think? I’m no doctor, this is just a personal opinion, with no evidence, but seems like most mental illnesses are related to childhood trauma.
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Well maybe. I came from a dysfunctional family a little bit
I myself sometimes belive I have ptsd from my voices and stay unresponsive for a second. But I dont have flashbacks of anything.
Environmental stress manifests as oxidative stress, and it can break down the blood-brain barrier if it happens long enough, causing mental illness.
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No, I don’t think anything environmental causes it. Probably genetics and possibly drug use. Lots of people go through nightmarish conditions and don’t develop mental illness.
I think mine was caused by a virus. Everyone is different. Maybe I have something else.
I think that for me it was mainly genetics although my family was a bit dysfunctional, but nothing extreme.
I think child trauma,environmental stress, genetics,drug use are all the reasons for schizophrenia.
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I think it’s more complicated than just childhood trauma, but I know mine sure contributed. My hallucinations started right around the same time as the abuse.
I didn’t have any childhood trauma and I am pretty schizophrenic.
hi @anon59642972, my schizophrenia was caused by chronic, childhood trauma at the hands of my primary caregivers. There were few protective factors so the trauma was very consistent & the damage extensive. My pdoc said the chronic stress caused gene expression to that of a schizophrenic. So you could say I needed to have those genes but their expression was caused by environment. If I’d had other genes, say Bipolar, then perhaps the gene expression would have been been that.
I read a great book by a local Professor of Psychiatry. It was a very validating read as his research showed that (I think it was ) 30 % of schizophrenia is caused by child abuse. And the symptoms resemble the original abuse. For example, a voice may resemble (in content) that of the childhood abusers, a delusion about sperm in food resembles the original childhood sexual abuse. I can’t recall the author’s name, Professor Reed maybe. A lovely & compassionate guy.
Here’s my local Adult Survivors of Child Abuse info on the impacts of child abuse on mental health..
I went thru a stage of researching everything I could about it. I eventually got bored when I found out the damage to the brain is permanent and the treatments are just the same old, same old I’d already found unhelpful or damaging.
I hope you can get to the bottom of your question & that it’s helpful.
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Childhood trauma + predisposed vulnerability ?
I believe the root of most, if not all, mental illnesses is childhood trauma.
Chicken or egg.
I was different from a young age and had a great life with plenty of emotional support. Still. Social life had a lot of bullying in school and later in trade work.
I think it can make a huge difference…or some difference. What that means depends on a lot of things. I’d say my life was pretty good but my mind wasn’t.
if you check last studies about schizophrenia you can see that schizophrenia reasons very similar to crohn disease.basicly at crohn disease immune system seeing gut system as a unknown object and try to destroy it and last studies shows that schizophrenia patient s immune system seeing their brain as a unknown object and attacking.thats why doctors thinking to give sz patients immune system antagonist also.but i can not give the adress of study because i forgot.and by the way that monthly immune system antagonist’ s injection price is about 4000 dollars.
Didn’t you get into a brutal car accident during high school?
Yeah I feel the same, sort of like a bad perspective of things. No one had a perfect childhood, but i just wonder if an excessively critical person/people could cause it, idk, it really doesn’t make a difference at this point, seems like I have a hard time letting go of ****, u know what I mean?
Yeah, it all seems kind of like one big flashback. Seems to me like it either wears off or i learn how to deal with it with time
Well yes. I forgot about that. Broken jaw and a concussion.
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So if brain damage is permanent, then how is recovery possible?
My dad had a stroke near when I was born. My parents divorced early on too. I didn’t say much or socialize much growing up or even today, that’s pretty traumatic to me too. I think I was cursed by the me in another demension.