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Nov 01, 2019 at 09:19 PM
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My boyfriend may have schizophrenia. While he has not been diagnosed, he shows some of the symptoms. He is very quiet towards other people and has insomnia. He shows slight depression, and has a lack of emotional response often. How can I help him? And will this affect how our potential future children will behave?
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Nov 02, 2019 at 02:29 PM
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Hello Realworld: I noticed this is your first post here on PC. So... welcome to Psych Central.
 I'm not a mental health professional. So all I can offer is my personal opinion. However, the things you mentioned, with regard to your bf, could apply to many different mental health concerns besides schizophrenia or even to no diagnoseable mental illness at all... simply the sorts of things everyone deals with from time-to-time. So my suggestion would be, if your bf has a concern with regard to his mental health, he should seek the services of a mental health professional perhaps a mental health therapist or a psychologist who can determine if he does in fact have a diagnoseable mental illness & if so what it is & what is to be done about it. Having written that, & since you came here asking about schizophrenia, here are links to 5 articles, from Psych Central's archives, that (hopefully) may be helpful: Schizophrenia Guide: Symptoms, Treatment & More | Psych Central Top 10 Signs of Schizophrenia | Psych Central Schizophrenia Guide | Psych Central Dating with Schizophrenia What It's Like to Live with Schizophrenia I hope you find PC to be of benefit. 
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Nov 02, 2019 at 11:23 PM
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Skeezyks has made a good point that symptoms of various diagnoses overlap and so even professionals struggle at times to make a diagnosis.
How disruptive is your boyfriend's condition to your relationship and living situation? The more disruptive it is, the more a professional's help is needed. The other benefit of having boyfriend under psych doc treatment is that often their condition may be prevented from getting worse. Of course it is not possible to make your boyfriend get treatment, but if they refuse, things could potentially get worse at some point so learning how to cope with them might be a challenge you might undertake as well. __________________ Super Moderator Community Support Team "Things Take Time" |
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