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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a best friend who developed schizophrenia after college. I think one of the biggest issues was that no one was looking for warning signs (of which there were many) and she wasn’t diagnosed until years after she started showing very severe symptoms. Make sure that you are keeping an eye out for warning signs as early diagnosis and intervention is important.

Your child’s risk of having it is very low. Take care of yourself and enjoy your baby. [/quote]

This is true because most of the time the symptoms develop at that age and the kids are almost never around their families anymore. New friends don't notice a change because they had no "before" picture.[/quote]

pp. very true. She was actually by BF in college and just started acting withdrawn and a bit anxious towards the end of senior year. She also started using a hard drug which seemed very strange but I put it down to her dating a slimy older guy who also used it. I approached her with concern of the guy and the drug but did not realize, at the time, that she was experiencing very troubling mental health issues and self-medicating. We drifted apart and I thought, for years, that she had just become an addict which seemed wildly out of character but I didn’t know any better. I wish I had known what she was going through and that she had known about any family history of schizophrenia.

OP knowing about the genetic component and being able to share this with her child is so, so helpful. [/quote]

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