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When a person is diagnosed with schizophrenia, often they or their family wonder \u201cHow can this be happening? What did I do?\u201d Over the centuries, the causes of schizophrenia have been debated, and many theories have emerged, most of them wrong.<\/p>\n
It appears that there is a combination of things that contribute to schizophrenia, with none of them being the sole cause. For example, if schizophrenia were completely genetic, when a person who is an identical twin has schizophrenia, his or her twin also would, which is not always true. If it were completely environmental, it wouldn\u2019t make sense that schizophrenia runs in some families, across generations and situations.<\/p>\n
So what is it? Researchers have found evidence that some people have a genetic susceptibility to developing schizophrenia, but that other things are involved, including life stress, emotional intensity of families, and the mother having a certain virus while pregnant (which virus hasn\u2019t been pinned down yet.)<\/p>\n
One theory that has been clearly discredited, however, is the \u201cschizophrenogenic mother,\u201d in which a mother\u2019s parenting style causes schizophrenia. There is nothing any one person can do to cause schizophrenia. Without the genetic and other neurological factors present, schizophrenia doesn\u2019t emerge. So, if you or a loved one has schizophrenia, please don\u2019t blame yourself.<\/p>\n
We may not know yet exactly the constellation of causes that come together for schizophrenia, but we know it\u2019s a lot more complicated than just one thing. More helpful is to focus on recovery, there are more answers to recovery than to causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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