Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease that causes its victim to experience symptoms that include but are not limited to, hearing and seeing things, delusions, disorganized behavior or speech. However, there are many different symptoms for this disease and they vary from person to person. Schizophrenia is all over the world (about 1% of the world to be exact) but it is defined differently from nation to nation (Shon W. Lewis, 1998, pp. 23-24). It also effects men and women almost equally, being to some extent more common in males than females. The age that effects each sex is also slightly different with females usually experiencing the onset of symptoms at 25 to 32 an males from 21 to 26 years old (Shon W. Lewis, 1998, p. 24). It also been
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In “The Biology of Schizophrenia,” the author goes into saying that there is a reason we are susceptible to schizophrenia and that it is our prolonged childhood. “Obviously, the fact that immaturity are relatively weak in man as compared with those of lower animals,” (Hoskins, 1946, p. 96). The book goes on to say that childhood and schizophrenia have many similarities and that schizophrenia can be a form of regression and reaction to a situation that the subject can do when they do not have the mental tools to deal with the situation. Our design to have long gestation and long childhoods can influence our minds even to when we are adults, and when one is susceptible to the disease they can draw tendencies and traits from their prolong childhood since it is long enough that the subjects are able to remember. Not to mention the prolong childhood can have an increase chance off error since it last longer than an animal’s childhood which are usually short. This analysis can drag into question the idea that schizophrenia maybe actually just the individual failing to mature properly (Hoskins, 1946, p. 97). Because it takes a longer time to mature we face a tradeoff which is the possibility of developing
In “The Biology of Schizophrenia,” the author goes into saying that there is a reason we are susceptible to schizophrenia and that it is our prolonged childhood. “Obviously, the fact that immaturity are relatively weak in man as compared with those of lower animals,” (Hoskins, 1946, p. 96). The book goes on to say that childhood and schizophrenia have many similarities and that schizophrenia can be a form of regression and reaction to a situation that the subject can do when they do not have the mental tools to deal with the situation. Our design to have long gestation and long childhoods can influence our minds even to when we are adults, and when one is susceptible to the disease they can draw tendencies and traits from their prolong childhood since it is long enough that the subjects are able to remember. Not to mention the prolong childhood can have an increase chance off error since it last longer than an animal’s childhood which are usually short. This analysis can drag into question the idea that schizophrenia maybe actually just the individual failing to mature properly (Hoskins, 1946, p. 97). Because it takes a longer time to mature we face a tradeoff which is the possibility of developing