Hello. This will be my first time posting here. I have read a couple of the threads already posted here about Schizophrenia but I have a few questions on my mind that I have been recently seriously thinking over. I would really appreciate any form of feedback.
I am engaged to a schizophrenic man and I love him so much. He's had very traumatic childhood and plus an abuse of marijuana at a younger age led him to develop schizophrenia (please feel free to correct any wrong ideas about it if I have any).
I have an uncle ( a close one, my father's brother) who lives with us (he's got a house of his own although it's still on the same compound) who had an episode to which we all believe to be schizophrenia. It was just once, I was very little then but old enough to remember some details. I don't know or remember what caused him to snap but all of a sudden, he gave away all his money and said that he's going to walk and be with his dead parents (my paternal grandparents)...he said they talked to him and tell him stuffs. Then after that, he said he'd hear voices telling him to pray Ave Maria over and over again. Then he refused to touch a computer because he believed they are the devil's instrument and he lost his job and was demoted from being a supervisor and was given a job as a janitor ( he was kept by the company due to loyalty to the family). He stopped drinker beer and smoking overnight and hasn't touched both for about 15 years now. He was not given a medication nor was he able to see the help he should have had. He's never had an episode ever since but he says he still hears the voices but he's learned to ignore them.
Since the picture of marriage and family has entered the scene, I am now contemplating about the chances of our offspring to be schizophrenics?
Thank you for taking the time to read my post.
