How Schizophrenia relates to and affects Willows life.
Schizophrenia tends to develop between the ages of 18 and 35 (for women). But in some extreme cases such as our main character, Willow, it can develop from an extremely early age.
Schizophrenia has two different types of symptoms: positive and negative. Willow showed signs of negative symptoms...
When Willow was a child she used to play just like other children but her parents abandonded her and put her in a childrens home. When she was about the age of 5, her carer realised that she began to stop any conversation as often as she could and she would keep her distance from most people, including her friends and would lose concentration quickly. She didn't want to go to her school or leave her room, she wouldn't play with her toys and resisted any contact with her friends at the care home. She would get bored extrermley quickly and she would start screaming and began having violent attacks if any body tried to calm her. After, she couldn't remember any thing she had done because they were like dreams to her.
Doctors say that people who suffer from schizophrenia may sometimes find it difficult to distinguish their own thoughts and ideas from reality and if the illness begins when the person is a child the illness the illness can be 20-30 times more severe than in adults. When Willow is older, because of her 'dreams' she does not know that she is committing any crimes. She believes that her hallucinations and delusions are just dreams and not reality. But as the story develops her thoughts become muddled and she cannot tell what is reality until she finds out that she has Schizophrenia.
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