Schizophrenia is just one of the most complex conditions when it comes to mental health disorders. It is actually a kind of mental sickness that can occur in any age of life. Because it is a severe and disabling disturbance of the brain which causes a person to think distorted, have strange feelings, behave unusually and use unusual language and words.

In children with schizophrenia, their behavior may change slowly, over a period of time, or have a sudden onset. The children with this condition slowly become more shy and withdrawn. They start to cling more to their parents and begin to talk about strange ideas or they will talk about their fears and all about what they are seeing just like in dreams. There are some characteristics of schizophrenia that are very hard to explain. One of the puzzling and disturbing characteristics of schizophrenia rapid onset of its psychotic symptoms. Basically psychotic signify ideas, perceptions, or feelings that completely distorted form reality.

Every child may experience different symptoms. Here are some of the most common symptoms that any child may experience.

1. Having difficulty in telling reality from dreams
2. Confused thinking
3. Paranoia, having the fear that someone or something is going to hurt them
4. Hallucinations, seeing or hearing things that are not real
5. Delusions, having ideas that seems to be real but are not based in reality
6. Extreme Moodiness
7. Severe anxiety
8. Flat effect, short of emotional expression when speaking
9. Social withdrawal, having problems in making and keeping friends
10. Disorganized behavior, becoming agitated and confused or sitting and staring as if cannot move
11. Odd behaviors

Often the symptoms of this mental illness are classified as positive and negative. Positive symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, and strange behavior. Negative symptoms on the other hand include flat effect, social withdrawal, and emotional unresponsiveness, disorganized speech, disorganize behavior (including mood swings, sudden aggression followed by being motionless and then staring. The symptoms of schizophrenia in children and in adults are almost quiet the same but more often in children, experience auditory hallucinations and mostly they do not experience delusions until they become older.

As the symptoms of schizophrenia differ from person to person, the treatment for this mental disorder can also vary. So it would be best to seek help from the experts on what kind of treatment or therapy is going to cure the person with this mental health disorder.

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