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What's the difference between schizophrenia and DID?
(dissociative identity disorder) Don't they both imply the same thing? I've been reading up on both and I know there's a difference, but what is it?
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- KatieWLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
People with schizophrenia display at least two symptoms that are considered "positive symptoms." Positive symptoms include all types of hallucinations and delusions. They are called positive symptoms because they are things that people with schizophrenia experience that people who are not psychotic do not. They are additions to the experiences that a typical brain allows. People with schizophrenia can experience lots of other symptoms as well such as catatonia, flat or blunted affect, lack of motivation, lack of pleasure, disorganized speech/thought, etc. However, a person must experience either hallucinations or delusions to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.
People with DID do not experience hallucinations or delusions. Instead, they dissociate and develop alternative identities that often serve as a coping mechanism or way to deal with a distressing situation or crisis. However, they do not have to be in such a situation to dissociate. People with DID are rarely even aware that they are dissociating to such a degree, even rarer is the ability to control dissociation. Therefore, dissociation can occur at random sometimes.
Really, there isn't much in common between the two disorders.
Source(s): Advocate for people diagnosed with or affected by schizohprenia - ?Lv 45 years ago
Your Answer: Paranoid Schizo is a detailed variety showing signs of paranoia, similar to anyone is out to get them, and so they more often than not have delusions of grandeur (wherein they believe they're anyone very foremost, like a king of a nation, or a central authority secret agent, and that they're the satisfactory at what they do). Until they're identified, so much of them do not know that what they're seeing isn't truly.The Nobel Prize winner, John Nash, was once a paranoid schizophrenic. They made a film A Beautiful Mind. Paranoid Schizo are the persons that speak to the air and legitimately preserve a talk with anyone they THINK is there. They even have auditory hallucinations, voices of their head. They say they may be able to pay attention them similar to you could be status there speakme to them. Auditory hallucinations are WAY extra usual than visible, and the voices are bad, telling them they must die, that they do not should are living. Disorganized Schizo is extra of a random babbling and laughing. You cannot continually inform what they're seeking to say. They are more often than not disorganized in idea, and in contrast to Paranoid Schizo, hallucinations are not the distinguished function, and so they more often than not should not have delusions of grandeur. The Catatonic Schizo is categorised through the tension of the muscle tissue. They can disturbing up and no longer be equipped to transport, or they would possibly not be equipped to quit relocating. They have auditory hallucinations so much ordinarily. Possible Causes of Schizopherenia: Predisposition- that means anyone of their household has/had it Stress Brain Structure- a few researchers have determined that the mind cells and the constitution of the total mind weren't "traditional" in line with say