Can a neurosis turn into schizophrenia?

  People who suffer from neurosis often worry that they will turn into schizophrenia. This fear is not necessary. In fact, neurosis and schizophrenia are two completely different disorders in nature, and neurosis does not turn into schizophrenia. Why, then, do some people have a vague understanding of this? This is because some patients with schizophrenia have neurosis-like symptoms early in the course of their illness, and superficially, they appear to resemble neurosis in both symptom presentation and examination, so some are misdiagnosed as having neurosis and are only diagnosed when the symptoms of schizophrenia are very obvious.  This situation indicates that the patient was suffering from schizophrenia from the beginning and not from neurosis to schizophrenia. The most prominent feature of neurological symptoms in early schizophrenia is that the patient is extremely concerned about his or her illness, actively seeks medical help, has deep painful experiences with symptoms of neurosis such as headache, dizziness, insomnia, excessive dreaming, anxiety, and restlessness, and has a strong desire to get rid of these symptoms, and is even often anxious because the illness is delayed; whereas in neurological symptoms in early schizophrenia symptoms, patients do not care enough about their illness, show indifference, and lack the painful experience of illness symptoms, and at the same time, patients may have bizarre and incomprehensible thoughts or practices (thought disorders and behavioral abnormalities).