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What is similar between schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder?
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∙ 13y ago
Although so-called schizophrenia is said to be a brain disease, while DID is acknowledged to be a psychological reaction to traumatic life events, so far no evidence has been found to support this distinction, and prove the brain disease hypothesis of schizophrenia to be true. In fact, newer research strongly indicates that both are caused by childhood trauma. Dissociation is not restricted to DID, but can be observed in schizophrenia as well. If a person is labelled with schizophrenia or DID depends on to which extent dissociation in relation to other trauma responses is predominant. If a fight, flight, or freeze response is predominant, the person will most likely be labelled with schizophrenia. If dissociation is the predominant feature she will probably be labelled with DID.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoNo, they are not the same. Dissociative Identity Disorder is a label given to the "old" Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). A person with Dissociative Identity Disorder experiences separate and distinct personalities within them. Depending on how well defined these personalities are, they may have different likes, dislikes, opinions and even physiological differences. A person with dissociative disorder does not experience separate and distinct personality changes. They may lose track of time, experience amnesia around certain events or experience "out of body" sensations but they are not "DID" ( Dissociative Identity Disorder).
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∙ 12y agoDissociative Identity Disorder is the current term for Multiple Personality Disorder. The primary symptom is the presence of two or more complete personalities in an individual.
Schizophrenia involves a variety of symptoms, depending on the type. the characteristic symptoms of Schizophrenia are delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior and negative symptoms. There are various types of schizophrenia; paranoid, catatonic, etc... and certain types have certain primary characteristics.
The belief that these conditions are similar if not the same is that Schizophrenia is derived from two Greek words: "Schizein" and "Phren", which when put together mean "to split mind". Therefore people believe that they have two different "minds" or personalities in the same body.
The simplest way of showing the difference between the two is that Dissociative Identity Disorder implies the presence of a more than one distinct personality present in one body, and that each are not associated to each other (as in they are separate, and independent of each other). Schizophrenia is the minds inability to separate true reality and a manufactured, internal reality. Hence their "minds" are "split" on the issue of which reality is the true reality and which is the manufactured one.
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∙ 11y agoNo. Dissociative identity disorder (DID), or multiple personality disorder, is a completely different disease from schizophrenia. DID is characterized by having multiple personalities. Schizophrenia is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized behavior.
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∙ 10y agoThe main reason why people confuse dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia is the meaning of schizophrenia's name. Schizophrenia literally means "split mind". Though the split refers to the split between the mind and reality, people mistakenly think that the split refers to a split between personalities. People also confuse the two because of the loose definition of schizophrenia in early versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which allowed for confusion. Finally, the media perpetuates the confusion by using the two terms interchangeably.
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∙ 11y agoSchizophrenia is a biological disorder that includes delusions and hallucinations and is partially genetic. Multiple personality disorder is a psychological disorder that comes from maladaptive coping skills, has no genetic basis, and may not be a real disorder.
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∙ 10y agoBipolar and schizophrenia are frequently confused, as people associate both with multiple personalities. In fact, bipolar is where the sufferer swings between feeling very depressed, and incredibly happy. Schizophrenia is more likely to involve hallucinations and delusions.
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Are schizoid and schizophrenia the same?
No. In fact, multiple personality disorder is not what the disorder is called. Dissociative identity disorder is what most people call multiple personality disorder. It is a dissociative disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distinct patterns of behavior. There is actually little interference with the social, occupational, and education aspect of a person's life. Schizophrenia is a psychosis characterized by two or more of the following: delusions, hallucinations, disorders of thought, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, and negative symptoms. It interferes extremely with social, occupational, and educational aspects of one's life.
What is the difference between paranoid personality disorder and schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia has symptoms that would not be seen in Paranoid Personality Disorder. While PPD have delusions of persecution, they generally do not have hallucinations of an audio, or visual nature.
How is schizoaffective distinguished from disorganized schizophrenia?
Schizoaffective disorder includes a diagnosable mood disorder. Most people with disorganized schizophrenia do not meet the diagnostic criteria for a mood disorder. There may be some overlap between disorganized schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder with unipolar depression. However, positive symptoms (such as delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech) will be present more prominently in people with schizoaffective disorder.
What is the Dissimilarity between pseudo neurotic schizophrenia and Generalized anxiety disorder?
A few diffrent things. 1. One is "pseudoneurotic schizophrenia" and the other is "Generalized anxiety disorder" 2. You placed a space in the first words causing them to be wrong.. 3. GAD is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry. whereas Pseudoneurotic schizophrenia masks a latent psychotic disorder.
What is schitzophrania?
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it difficult to tell the difference between real and unreal experiences.
Is there any relation between obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia?
There is some link between schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Among schizophrenic patients, 7.8 to 26 percent of them (depending on the study) meet the criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, not enough research has been done on this for us to know why the rate is so high.
Is there such a thing as a mild form of schizophrenia?
Opinions are divided on that. Some clinicians say that mild cases of schizophrenia are possible, and are in fact true in cases of paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. Others say that schizophrenia is schizophrenia, and you cannot have a milder form of it.
Can bipolar people have schizophrenic symptoms?
Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia have some symptoms that are quite similar. The main difference between these two is that schizophrenia's characterized by hallucinations and delusions while bipolar disorder is mainly manic behavior followed by periods of depression. Typically, bipolar behaviors are fairly distinguishable from schizophrenia, but there are some rare cases of schizo-affective disorder which is a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder where there is a mood component accompanied by schizophrenia. In short, bipolar symptoms can be somewhat similar to schizophrenic symptoms, but unless the individual has schizo-affective disorder the symptoms won't be identical enough to confuse the two disorders with one another.
What is the difference between schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder?
Dementia is a catch-all word for well, loss of the mental function, lit, out of the mind, De- Mentia. There are different types. Schizoaffective implies a sort of split personality and often violent mood shifts, secondary personalities ( i am not talking about the healthy kind manifested by writers and cartoonists doing different characters) they are both mental illnesses, but Dementia is vague, Schizoid is more specific.
What is difference between mental disorder and neurological?
A mental disorder is a mental illness or psychological illness. These are things like schizophrenia and depression. A neurological disorder is a disorder of the body's central nervous system. This includes epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. It should be noted that schizophrenia is often characterized as a neurological disorder, and that psychiatric illnesses are characterized as dysfunctions in thought, behavior, or emotion that lead to dysfunction. Neurological disorders are diseases of the nervous system, which can in-turn, lead to psychiatric symptoms.
How many people have been diagnose with multiple identity disorder?
Great material for a joke, but multiples (Dissociative Identity Disorder/DID) are not funny. The exact number is unknown. There were a lot of diagnoses back in the '90's, some of which were discredited, and the actual number is though to be much lower than was formerly reported. There is no question, however, that DID cases exist. The writer is personally acquainted with one person with at least three multiples and complete dissociation among all three -- meaning that none of the three are aware of the others, and there is complete amnesia between personalities.
What is the difference between autism and schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that involves problems with perception of reality. Autism is a developmental disorder that involves problems with theory of mind and sensory difficulties. While both disorders involve inappropriate affect (expression of emotion) and problems integrating sensory input, the disorders are completely different.
