Well, for one, a LOT of people who are taking psychology classes start to get paranoid that they have the problems they are learning about. This is because everyone has a lot of the issues that people with a serious mental illness have, but to a much lesser degree.
The sleepy problem you describe doesn't seem like much of a concern as far as schizophrenia goes, but you could have other issues you haven't even realized are abnormal.
For the most part I would tell you to not worry yourself so much, you can psych yourself into having a mental problem.
But I would also like to say that my husband has schizophrenia. About a year before he had his first break from reality, he woke me up one night because he was seeing a face in the oscillating fan across the room. That night we talked about how bizarre it would be if he got schizophrenia. We laughed about it. Joke's on us.
The hallucinations in schizophrenia are caused by misfires in your brain. You sense one thing, the message goes to your brain, and somehow gets thrown off track and you may see/hear/feel something that didn't happen or wasn't there.
Often times a schizo will have a lot of misfires before they actually detach from reality, before it becomes obvious that there's a problem. And even normal healthy people can have misfires from time to time. But usually the kinds of misfires you have to look out for are things like, shadows becoming something else, or changing, or when someone says something to you you hear it as something completely different. Like someone might say, "Oh, that's pitiful" And you might here "You're a pedophile". And it's not just that you HEAR that, this ominous feeling of terrible significance is often accompanied by it. You will start to think that things "aren't what they seem", that everyone has and ulterior motive, etc.
That's just the types of things that you might experience. There are people who have more positive hallucinations and delusions and aren't as paranoid, but these types of things tend to be the most common.
And you're not just going to wake up one morning schizo for no real reason. You would likely have a series of very stressful things happen to you, maybe even traumatic, or have to suddenly assume a large amount of responsibility all at once. Something like that it what triggers your brain. That could be why so many young men get it in their late teens and early twenties...that's a time that has a lot of change in it. Maybe women get it later because they tend to have a different process of maturity where late twenties early thrities tends to have a lot more change or stress.
If psychosis runs in your family, or you start to have symptoms simliar to the ones I mentioned, talk to a doctor about them. If you nip schizophrenia in the bud it will do a lot less damage to your life.
But it sounds to me more like you just have some kind of panic/anxiety type of disorder. You sound like you are just wigging out! :)
I am afraid I will get schizophrenia
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Well, for one, a LOT of people who are taking psychology classes start to get paranoid that they have the problems they are learning about. This is because everyone has a lot of the issues that people with a serious mental illness have, but to a much lesser degree.
The sleepy problem you describe doesn't seem like much of a concern as far as schizophrenia goes, but you could have other issues you haven't even realized are abnormal.
For the most part I would tell you to not worry yourself so much, you can psych yourself into having a mental problem.
But I would also like to say that my husband has schizophrenia. About a year before he had his first break from reality, he woke me up one night because he was seeing a face in the oscillating fan across the room. That night we talked about how bizarre it would be if he got schizophrenia. We laughed about it. Joke's on us.
The hallucinations in schizophrenia are caused by misfires in your brain. You sense one thing, the message goes to your brain, and somehow gets thrown off track and you may see/hear/feel something that didn't happen or wasn't there.
Often times a schizo will have a lot of misfires before they actually detach from reality, before it becomes obvious that there's a problem. And even normal healthy people can have misfires from time to time. But usually the kinds of misfires you have to look out for are things like, shadows becoming something else, or changing, or when someone says something to you you hear it as something completely different. Like someone might say, "Oh, that's pitiful" And you might here "You're a pedophile". And it's not just that you HEAR that, this ominous feeling of terrible significance is often accompanied by it. You will start to think that things "aren't what they seem", that everyone has and ulterior motive, etc.
That's just the types of things that you might experience. There are people who have more positive hallucinations and delusions and aren't as paranoid, but these types of things tend to be the most common.
And you're not just going to wake up one morning schizo for no real reason. You would likely have a series of very stressful things happen to you, maybe even traumatic, or have to suddenly assume a large amount of responsibility all at once. Something like that it what triggers your brain. That could be why so many young men get it in their late teens and early twenties...that's a time that has a lot of change in it. Maybe women get it later because they tend to have a different process of maturity where late twenties early thrities tends to have a lot more change or stress.
If psychosis runs in your family, or you start to have symptoms simliar to the ones I mentioned, talk to a doctor about them. If you nip schizophrenia in the bud it will do a lot less damage to your life.
But it sounds to me more like you just have some kind of panic/anxiety type of disorder. You sound like you are just wigging out! :)
Good luck.