Schizophrenia in children is exceedingly rare, and it can be difficult to identify the symptoms, as they mimic many other behavioral disorders. Here are some signs that your child may be schizophrenic.
1.) Hallucinations
Those with schizophrenia typically experience hallucinations. Does your child have a number of childhood friends that they talk to on a regular basis? While this is normal behavior to some extent in those with childhood schizophrenia, they may talk with their friends for hours, or treat them as if they are sincere people.
2.) Paranoia
Children may feel like someone is out to gain them and injure them. Usually, this is personified by an invisible monster in the child’s imagination. Many children have an active imagination, but in children with schizophrenia, this anxiety will be crippling.
3.) Severe Anxiety
Children with this disorder will be stupefied on a regular basis, to the extent that they won’t socialize with others, and are jumpy or having a hard time adapting to current situations and environments.
4.) Social Isolation
grief in playing with others and social withdraw is a current symptom of schizophrenia, with children going into a shell or being far more alive to in using their imagination or talking to invisible friends, than making proper friends and playing games with other children.
5.) Telling Fact from Fiction
Distinguishing reality is complex with children, as many are likely to occupy in invisible entities, such as Santa Claus. In a child suffering from schizophrenia, their well-liked cartoon may be very loyal to them, leaving them with a hard time separating a scary dream from trusty life events.