Can Children Have Schizophrenia?

Written by NIMH

Children over the age of five can develop schizophrenia, but it is very rare before adolescence. Although some people who later develop schizophrenia may have seemed different from other children at an early age, the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia - hallucinations and delusions - are extremely uncommon before adolescence.

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