what do you think causes schizophrenia?!

There really is no definitive answer to this other than the long held and currently held belief that it is primarily caused by the early environment of the baby growing up.
There is thought to be some slight connection to heredity, but with no real certainty.
The hormone experts would say most mental illness is hormone imbalances , at least contributing.

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It is unknown why a person has schizophrenia but it's believed that it can be inherited. One thing that is known is that many times a person who has had a severe head trauma, brain damage, he/she becomes schizophrenic. I know that's true first-hand.

If you put 2 x-rays beside each other, one from a normal person and the other a schizophrenic, you will see the difference in the brains. The schizophrenic will have an open area, or hole, in the front of the brain. Interesting because I've seen x-rays like that several times.

So, with all that said, schizophrenia is actually a missing area of the brain caused by either being inherited or due to trauma.

I am honestly stumped by that question.

What I've learned in psychology pans out with my first hand experience with schizophrenics as an out reach worker on the streets. Some of it is definately congenital.

YET I have seen first hand instances of individuals developing schizophrenia resulting from horrific childhood trauma at the hands of dysfunctional parents. So I believe, though I don't have the research, that schizophrenia can also be brought on in 'normal' individuals by stressors.

So what causes it? I don't know - but I know it exists.