Growing Up With Schizophrenic Parents

During the lifetime of someone who grow up with at parents who is schizophrenic; resentment toward their parents or themselves begins to build up over the course of their life. This resentment is a result of them feeling that they are incapable of helping their parents when they need it most. From blaming their parents for having schizophrenia, but as well as not being able to help them control their parents’ episodes. Growing up with a parent who is schizophrenic creates problems during childhood and adulthood, consequently causing emotional, mental, or even physical trauma. Under the circumstances of growing up with a parent that has schizophrenia can cause mental issues to form. With the risk of not only establishing the schizophrenic …show more content…
When people are asked about schizophrenia they give vague answers like it causes people to sometime stray away from reality and confuse their imagination with real life. During an adolescent life, they are very vulnerable to be accepted by their peers. Ordinarily, adolescents want their friend to come over, hang out, and meet their parents. Having a schizophrenic parent makes this hard because it is hard to predict an episode coming, and while having friends over and an episode occurring can cause embarrassment. Therefore, to avoid the mortification of that happening, they go into isolation and cut off any sort of personal relationships. According to Jack Gordon “Feelings of belonging tend to be strongest amongst teenagers who perceive that they are accepted within the neighborhoods where they live...” (Lynch 1977; McCreanor et al. 2006, p.2). Correspondingly, this fear of humiliation when people meet their parents because they might not be accepted is what brings them to isolation which also leads to depression and anxiety. Once these adolescents go into isolation they tend to stray from any and every one causing themselves to not even try and build personal relationships with …show more content…
People get married, begin a new career, and start trying to have a family of their own. With all of these aspects put into place a person who has grown up with a parent who has schizophrenia might not want these things. The fear of them turning into a schizophrenic or their child developing schizophrenia has a major impact on their decision about having these things. The unknown of if they will develop this disease when they grow older is what causes this fear. Making their child go through what they had to when they were younger isn’t something they want for their child’s life. In the Journal of Family Psychology, the authors stated “Overall, findings reveal that positive aspects of the quality of relationships or support among family members have concurrent, short-, and long-term linkages to psychological adjustment and well-being (Fuller-Iglesias, Webster, & Antonucci, 2015; Mallers, Charles, Neupert & Almeida, 2010, para. 3). Consequently, this shows that if they were to have a family of their own there might be difficulties to create a strong family foundation. Those positive aspects weren’t in their childhood because of what they went through with their parents and making their kids go through the same thing isn’t what they feel is best for