According to statistics, schizophrenia is more "male" disease than female. However, in the reliability of statistics, one can sincerely doubt, as many patients are not diagnosed, and not everyone can get to the psychiatrist's office. Nevertheless, in women the symptoms of schizophrenia are slightly modified, as is the course of the disease.
Development of the disease
The first symptoms of schizophrenia can be noticed even in adolescence, especially in men. Adolescents in this case are aggressive and associative. And the diagnosis is most often made by men at the age of 30.
In women, everything happens the other way around: diagnosing diseases occurs at 25 years of age, but in childhood and adolescence it is almost invisible. The disease is born quietly and inconspicuously, without acute manifestations. This is the so-called latent form of schizophrenia.
The initial symptoms of schizophrenia are separating oneself from society, avoiding contacts, and non-observance of personal hygiene. Especially when a person changes dramatically and dramatically in comparison with his previous appearance.
About why this disease develops there are still a lot of rumors and disputes. After all, a certain scientist can not give a definite answer. Previously, everything was calculated according to statistics - 40-50% of children with the presence of one of the parents with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, themselves became clients of psychiatrists. The same figures were confirmed by genetic studies of scientists who managed to find the genes of schizophrenia.
But here there is another extreme: a person knowing that he is predisposed, he himself promotes the manifestation of symptoms of schizophrenia. Autotraining is obtained.
Symptoms
The symptom of latent schizophrenia in women is often depression. It can last for years, being not as noticeable and exciting for others as productive symptoms of the disease, until the manifestation of which can take years.
With silent schizophrenia, aggression as a symptom is completely invisible, women are characterized simply by a sharp withdrawal from society, minimizing contact, irritation, and coldness. That is, at first glance, nothing fatal.
As for men, they have the opposite, depression is less common than other symptoms in schizophrenia, but almost immediately there are productive signs, especially delirium of persecution.
Well, the productive symptoms themselves are few. In the case of schizophrenia, it is, above all, nonsense and hallucinations.
Both the first and the second have many varieties. So, all patients are characterized by sound hallucinations. They can be verbal (voices say, give orders, condemn) or purely sound - noise, screeching, howling, laughing , screaming. Visual hallucinations are less common, but olfactory and taste buds are common. So, the patient seems that the food is poisoned, disgusting, stinks, a person smells blood, corpses, rot.
Among delirium, one should single out the main, most characteristic for schizophrenia, delirium of persecution. It manifests itself in various forms: surveillance, eavesdropping, someone hid in the room, etc.
Delusional ideas can also extend to thoughts of oneself - delirium of origin,
Thinking
For the diagnosis of schizophrenia, simple tests are used that show the presence of mental disorders, which indicates the development of schizophrenia:
- the patient has "his own vocabulary" - to anyone other than him, incomprehensible and unknown words and notations;
- the patient can not divide the secondary with the primary;
- man loses control over the flow of thoughts, logic;
- the patient automatically repeats the words for the interlocutor;
- the ability to generalize and divide is lost.