[jxoxolove]

I have to write a report about stuff pertaining to this. A lot of what i looked up on various websites was skewed or contradicting other information. Any SOLID information helps.
* I don't HAVE this i just need my question answered
** The report is basically exploring the psychology and personality of the character Macbeth from Shakespeare's Macbeth. While contemplating a murder, he experiences a hallucination of a dagger, his weapon of choice for the murder. After causing the murder of a lifelong friend, he "sees" the ghost of that man. He shows other symptoms of the above disorders... or does he? Anyway, would the stress of murdering these people trigger these hallucinations and cause PTSD or PS? or is he just reacting to/dealing with the stress in a bad way?

[johhnnny]

It is still to early to no the answer to this. Check out your doctor and get some professional help and counseling.

[YewKnowsIt..!]

Yes. Many people who are war veterans have returned from the battlefield with paranoid schizophrenia, or just schizophrenia. It takes a really traumatic experience, though, and usually these people are already at risk of contracting the disease (for example, they have a history of it in their family).

[Ann011306]

No. PTSD and stress are not inherited or caused by any abnormalities and Schizophrenia is a chromosomal abnormality. It's chromosome 22. If you want to get specific. If you have an abnormality in the 22ND chromosome it is more likely that you will develop it. Schizophrenia is not really inherited. Many people are confused by this because sometimes a great grandmother might have it and then one of her great grand kids might have it as well. Though just because she had is doesn't mean that her children will have it but they or their kids or grand kids will be more susceptible for a chromosomal abnormality. When something is inherited it means that the grandma had it and so did her children and so on. A good example of something that is inherited would be something like diabetes.

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Guy above me. Soldiers who come back from war have PTSD, not Schizophrenia. These are the symptoms of PTSD and some are similar to Schizophrenia like the agitation and overreaction to certain events but besides that they are nothing alike
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001923/#adam_000925.disease.symptoms

[DominoSweetie]

No it can't, i asked my therapist a lot about different disorders and stuff and she said that its linked at birth. Also linked to a pregnant women catching a virus during her second trimester . They don't know why, but babies get infected with the virus causing some type of brain damage its really just different chemicals in the brain. Paranoid Schizophrenia is more of a physical disorder then a mental one if that makes since.

[keely d]

There is no possibility of this in the ordinary sense. PTSD is one of only 2 anxiety spectrum DISORDERS which are completely curable; there are only treatments for others. None involve changes in brain structure. There are also effective means of combating stress.

The brains of schizophrenics exhibit structural differences to those of the general population. It is a degenerative DISEASE, with no cure at present. "The cause of this disorder is not known. It may be caused by a chemical defect in the brain. Imbalance of Nero-transmittors glutamate and dopamine has been associated with the disorder. Some studies also show physical abnormalities in the brain structure of schizophrenics with enlargement of fluid-filled cavities (ventricles), in the interior of the brain and decreased size of certain brain regions".

Because stress may impair the immune system, and the use of psychoactive medications (what medications were prescribed to treat stress in those individuals?) is know to sometimes trigger schizophrenia in the genetically predisposed, I allow the possibility that such may occur. Also, it may be a non causal relationship. Schizophrenia may have developed anyway, but if PTSD was present, it seems reasonable that the hyper vigilance, flashbacks, and sleep disturbances like nightmares may cause a higher rate of paranoia.

You could post questions in the schizophrenia & PTSD forums and chat rooms via http://your-mental-health.weebly.com/k.html and page Q, where you may well get more useful info than here. Google more/newer ones.