Why do siblings experience different mental illness symptoms? | Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective
Bill answers a question about siblings, one with schizoaffective and the other with schizophrenia, and why they experience different symptoms and outcomes.
A LOT of schizophrenics have raynauds. I wonder what that means, but it
makes winters annoying. Not bad, but annoying. My brain seems to have
recovered once the residual. I looked through my school records, and I was
described as "being disorganized" and needing to be "closer to instruction"
as well as quiet and having strange mannerisms. You can see in my grades
when I was having issues. It went away, but when I was in the military, it
erupted again. I wish they would have screened me.
Males have a harder time due to hormones, my doctor said, but she said it
wasn't for sure, just that females do better in her experience. She said
also that smarter ones did better, and even with an IQ of 116, I'm above
many of them, so I do better. I lost 22 IQ points in verbal understanding,
but I gained some in other areas. Oh, I noticed!
Because my other family members' brains were able to bounce back and it
went away. Some of the others have had issues. I have a cousin who
recovered in her 30s after having issues during her 20s. The difference is
that they're smarter. I was born early and there were issues, so I'm not as
smart.