For example, schizophrenia typically appears around the 20s, but is rare in childhood. Why is it so rare to see in childhood?
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I think schizophrenia and bipolar might have two very different answers here. The answers people are giving for schizophrenia are likely not the answers you’d see for bipolar.
For many bipolar people, looking back, they can see the beginnings of things. Bipolar also looks very different in small kids, and often they get a host of various diagnosis before settling on bipolar in teens/early 20’s. I know I was caught as having a mood disorder at 7, ended up hospitalized and on strong meds not long after, but wasn’t formally diagnosed until 14.
Vs schizophrenia which is a very not there/there thing, with a fairly short onset window. You rarely look back on their mental health history and go “oh, yeah, that makes sense” a decade back into their life. Each condition is just going to be different.
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