Stress in early pregnancy linked to schizophrenia.
Yes here we go again; I missed this one, as it was in February and I was busy collecting stories, but today a quick browse found this link to some research connecting difficult intrauterine experiences for a foetus and the eventual psychology of the born child.
Of course these scientists missed an important element: one in 8 pregnancies are multiple at first.
Stress in pregnancy compromises the pregnancy and can cause the loss of the entire pregnancy. How obvious that stress in early pregnancy would have an effect on the born child! The survivor of such an experience (stress hormones from Mum passing via the placenta through the blood supply of the foetus,) would most probably be a wombtwin survivor. Hence etc....
What a different result we would see if such research factored in the vanished twin! Then we would see that the symptoms we call " schizophrenia" are a completely normal reaction to an intense and very difficult prebirth experience.
There are a couple of stories in A Silent Cry of the mis-diagnosis of schizophrenia, and I have spoken of this before on this blog, in connection with the eight years that Janet Frame spent in mental hospital hell. Maybe things will change when these stories are made available. I do hope so!
When a twin dies before birth, the sole survivor needs help and understanding. Womb twin survivors are the sole survivors of a twin or multiple pregnancy. This group, 1 in 10 of the population, includes survivors of a stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion and a "vanishing twin" pregnancy. It is a story of a twin bond broken by death, leaving a lonely survivor.
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