Have you ever heard of schizophrenia being caused by a head injury

I had a head injury playing hockey and after that was when I got schizoaffective disorder. Do u think that my head injury had something to do with it

I use my sense of perception sometimes to figure that a severe injury I had once caused my schizo affective. I think its more due to a reality shock then a brain injury. I figured I might have caught it because of an EXTREMELY traumatic experience I had as a kid skateboarding. I basically was impaled down my throat by a large branch. the shear fear and amount of pain leading to a thought of death I thought could have sent me on a bad near death experience trip.

anyway I wouldn’t doubt your intelligence by any means, its not like you were knocked silly.

I was saying the other day or last week or whenever it was that I’ve had enough concussions including loss of consciousness and even ability to see in color that I should qualify for someone with brain damage rather than someone with mental illness. Between playground accidents, being hit in the head with a baseball, a snoboarding accident in which I blacked out, and any number of times I’ve stood up too fast in a tight space…my brains been knocked around regardless.

But no, mental illness, this is much better.

I read somewhere that there schizophrenics tend to have a greater history of closed head trauma, but that doesn’t really establish causality since we tend to have poor motor coordination, which could explain the injuries.

I’ve heard that it can - google it,

My roommate and I were talking about this tonight. I’ve had three diagnosed mild concussions and two probable ones. None of them were serious, but cumulatively, it’s no good. And I’d second what @ChestRockwell says - I’m a klutz, which factored into four of those knocks on the head.

Yes. Does your story correlate with this cause?

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oh has to be at least 15 characters… what do you mean there…?

I heard that a brain laceration can cause visual hallucinations