A few factors that support this include that she has no family history of schizophrenia, she has a great deal of knowledge about her illness, she portrays few negative symptoms, a late onset at about the age of 28, and she is a female. She explains how there was no severe change with her onset, “… I kinda slipped from reality into unreality without any real, sharp change. It was kind of a gradual thing” (McGrawHill Higher Education, 2007, Clinical Questions). Also, she discusses that she believes the initial psychotic break originated from her husband confessing that he did not want to have children anymore. Some factors that she experiences which point toward a negative prognosis include that she was not very social before her diagnosis, and that she had a slow onset of her illness. Overall, I believe that so far she has had a rather positive prognosis and will continue
A few factors that support this include that she has no family history of schizophrenia, she has a great deal of knowledge about her illness, she portrays few negative symptoms, a late onset at about the age of 28, and she is a female. She explains how there was no severe change with her onset, “… I kinda slipped from reality into unreality without any real, sharp change. It was kind of a gradual thing” (McGrawHill Higher Education, 2007, Clinical Questions). Also, she discusses that she believes the initial psychotic break originated from her husband confessing that he did not want to have children anymore. Some factors that she experiences which point toward a negative prognosis include that she was not very social before her diagnosis, and that she had a slow onset of her illness. Overall, I believe that so far she has had a rather positive prognosis and will continue