Is schizophrenia hereditary?
yes schizophrenia is hereditary., but usually skips a generation. males can be schizophrenic as young as 16 and quite often around 18 to 24. early detection is a good idea. perhaps it would be a good idea to educate yourself about schizophrenia so you may be able to understand your father better, and to help you. today there are a lot of better medications, than when your father was diagnosed. and people today can live a fairly normal life with the proper treatment. schizophrenia also can be severe or mild. try not to worry too much if you get it, as you may never get it at all don”t be afraid if you see some of symptoms of schizophrenia in yourself we all have some of these symptoms but it depends on degree or the severity. you could check with your fathers doctor too that might put u at ease.
Unfortunately yes it is believed to be hereditary: Estimates of the heritability of schizophrenia tend to vary owing to the difficulty of separating the effects of genetics and the environment although twin studies have suggested a high level of heritability.[50] It has been suggested that schizophrenia is a condition of complex inheritance, with several genes possibly interacting to generate risk for schizophrenia or the separate components that can co-occur leading to a diagnosis.[51] These genes appear to be non-specific, in that they may raise the risk of developing other psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder.[52] However, recent metaanalyses of linkage studies have produced conflicting findings.[53] Larger-scale, thus more sensitive genome-wide association studies are being conducted.[54] Schizophrenia has also been associated with rare deletions or duplications of tiny DNA sequences (known as copy number variants) disproportionately occurring within genes involved in neu
The last time I checked, about 3 years ago, the chances of having kids with schizophrenia were 1% if it’s not in your family and 2% if it’s in your family. It’s really hard to tell, they don’t know much about it yet. About your symptoms, it could be real or it could be the fear of having a mental illness playing tricks on you. You should tell a doctor.
