My Told Me He Has Always Had Nightmares?

Question by vis: my told me he has always had nightmares?
even when he was a little boy he had them but never told any one..that was one of the reason he drank so much as adult was to get rid of them..but it don’t work..is there a disorder that causes that..?
he told me he would not know what a good dream was?

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Answer by Sherry
my mom is a scisofrenic too.. its called sciso something…. sorry bout the spelling.

Oh, here is the link… weird speeling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia

Characteristic symptoms: Two or more of the following, each present for much of the time during a one-month period (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment).
Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized speech, which is a manifestation of formal thought disorder
Grossly disorganized behavior (e.g. dressing inappropriately, crying frequently) or catatonic behavior
Negative symptoms—affective flattening (lack or decline in emotional response), alogia (lack or decline in speech), or avolition (lack or decline in motivation)
If the delusions are judged to be bizarre, or hallucinations consist of hearing one voice participating in a running commentary of the patient’s actions or of hearing two or more voices conversing with each other, only that symptom is required above. The speech disorganization criterion is only met if it is severe enough to substantially impair communication.
Social/occupational dysfunction: For a significant portion of the time since the onset of the disturbance, one or more major areas of functioning such as work, interpersonal relations, or self-care, are markedly below the level achieved prior to the onset.
Duration: Continuous signs of the disturbance persist for at least six months. This six-month period must include at least one month of symptoms (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment).
Prenatal
Causal factors are thought to initially come together in early neurodevelopment to increase the risk of later developing schizophrenia. One curious finding is that people diagnosed with schizophrenia are more likely to have been born in winter or spring, (at least in the northern hemisphere).[56] There is now evidence that prenatal exposure to infections increases the risk for developing schizophrenia later in life, providing additional evidence for a link between in utero developmental pathology and risk of developing the condition.[57]

Although about half of all patients with schizophrenia abuse drugs or alcohol, a clear causal connection between drug use and schizophrenia has been difficult to prove. The two most often used explanations for this are “substance use causes schizophrenia” and “substance use is a consequence of schizophrenia”, and they both may be correct.[66] A 2007 meta-analysis estimated that cannabis use is statistically associated with a dose-dependent increase in risk of development of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia.[67] There is little evidence to suggest that other drugs including alcohol cause schizophrenia, or that psychotic individuals choose specific drugs to self-medicate; there is some support for the theory that they use drugs to cope with unpleasant states such as depression, anxiety, boredom and loneliness.[68] However, regarding psychosis itself, it is well understood that methamphetamine and cocaine use can result in methamphetamine or cocaine induced psychosis which presents very similar symptomatology and may persist even when users remain abstinent.[69]

Answer by dxcrater
tell your mom to see a specialist they will see what is wrong

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