2006-06-13 10:24:32 · 16 answers · asked by tropic 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Usually just 1. Dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder, or split personality) is a separate disorder from schizophrenia. It is extremely rare, and many people believe that it does not exist at all.
2006-06-13 10:32:45 · answer #1 · answered by extrasynaptic 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A schizophrenic person usually only has one personality. You may be talking about a mutilple personality disorder, but not schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is an impairment in the person perception or their expressions of reality. They simply don't see or live life as everyone esle does.
2006-06-13 10:32:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schizophrenia describes a category of chronic mental illnesses (schizophrenic disorders) that have in common psychosis (being out of touch with reality), thought disturbances (delusions and hallucinations), mood disorders (blunted or inappropriate emotional expression), a disturbed sense of self and one's relationship to the external world (loss of ego boundaries or withdrawal), and changes in behavior (bizarre or purposeless and stereotyped activity or inactivity). The manifestations of schizophrenia vary among individuals and affect many aspects of behavior, personality, thinking, and emotions. schizophrenic does not mean you have multiple personalities...
2006-06-13 16:54:53 · answer #3 · answered by purple 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are two totally different mental problems. Schizophrenia is characterized by delusions, which usually have to do with either the FBI hunting them (paranoia) or them being Jesus or Elvis etc (delusions of grandeur)
2006-06-13 10:27:24 · answer #4 · answered by mrchinlersir 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just one. The may have visual, auditory, and/or tactile hallucinations. But they don't have multiple personality disorder, which by the way is an exceptionally small fraction of mental disorders.
2006-06-13 10:36:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People with schizophrenia do not have multiple personalities, they just have a break in reality and have hallucinations, paranoia, experience things that aren't real.
2006-06-13 10:30:53 · answer #6 · answered by sgrjackson1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One. Schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are two separate things.
2006-06-13 10:27:47 · answer #7 · answered by Enyo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person can never really tell how many someone has.
2006-06-13 10:28:03 · answer #8 · answered by anime_femalewolf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that they are capable of possessing endless personalities... Ugh, I couldn't imagine...
2006-06-13 10:31:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends, at least 2.
2006-06-13 10:27:15 · answer #10 · answered by caitie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋