Recent studies have proved that childhood schizophrenia - it's the same mental disorder that affects adults, but it is more severe form. But how suspect the disease in a child? What are the symptoms - a reason for immediate treatment to a psychiatrist? Let's investigate.
You should be concerned if your son or daughter:
1. Strange and persistent fantasies. For example, little man completely connects with the characters of games (usually - any one of them). So playing "cat", he begins to eat only on the floor, and only from the bowl; He does not drink and lapping; It does not call for a long time, his name and gender (girl / boy), and goes on to say that he - "cat", etc.
2. Fears that it is impossible to understand. Toddler or can not quite explain why he is frightened, or too brightly and vividly describes the "monsters" that makes him afraid, and may even show you where exactly they "are."
3. The deterioration of the socio-consumer operation. The child begins to behave as if he suddenly became younger. The worst time to the lessons in the school or classroom in kindergarten; ceases to look after themselves; He prefers to communicate with their peers in the privacy of their room.
4. During conversations often loses the thread of conversation, listening to something, she looks around. Sometimes we are a boy or girl becomes incoherent; he or she often complain about the voice that "hear" in his head. Sometimes even going decay of speech when speaking phrases are shorter and more primitive.
5. Cruelty and absolutely unmotivated aggression. The child generally shows too vivid emotions and totally out of place. For example, can laugh out loud when they report about something sad.
6. The appearance of bright color contrast in the images of children's drawings, the lack of coherence of the story. Many believe that the predominance of black in the images is a testament to develop schizophrenia, but it is not. Black talks about a depressed child's condition (which is also a reason for immediate treatment to the doctor). But blue grass next to a pond with an orange - it is a reason to suspect that most mental disorder. As evidenced by the frightening stories - constantly repeated in the drawings ethereal and obviously terrible monsters; severed limbs have drawn beings; large, well-defined, terrifying eyes.
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