It does not mean double personality. That is Dissociative Identitiy Disorder. Does anyone else on this site know this other than me?
2006-08-18 02:44:25 · 22 answers · asked by tinkerbell34 4 in Health ➔ Mental Health
yep my mate has Schizophrenia and she finds that people think the same thing, she is always being asked by people what her other is like.....and these are from people who know her, if they were real friends they would find out about her condition and accept her as she is. BTW she's a cool neat lady.
2006-08-18 02:52:05 · answer #1 · answered by lyndles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Hallucinating is in basic terms a symptom with reference to Schizophrenia. There are Schizophrenic sufferers who do no longer even hallucinate. Hallucinating can take place from here motives: stress stress Paranoia drugs Psychosis PTSD Sleep Deprivation melancholy medicine and countless greater. you do no longer sound such as you have Schizophrenia, nowhere close to it. yet i'm no longer an authorized well being practitioner and characteristic no longer asked you approximately any standards that desires to be met. in case you think of you have a extreme concern, pass on your well being practitioner.
2016-09-29 09:59:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It's just that some of the symptoms include dellusions, hallucinations, and withdrawal from society. If you want to learn more, I suggest checking out WebMD. It is the best and most comprehensive site I have found in dealing with everything from cancer to mental illness to medications. It is very informative.
2006-08-18 03:07:27 · answer #3 · answered by jamus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But with the media telling us that a schizo is a split personality (and people never do research). I'm not surprised
The term schizophrenia translates roughly as "shattered mind," and comes from the Greek σχίζω (schizo, "to split" or "to divide") and φρήν (phrēn, "mind").
Thus the confusion
2006-08-18 02:51:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
youre wrong you know ,it depends upon the type of schizophrenia as to whether you suffer from delusions or hallucinations and what kind of hallucinations?
Gustatory,auditory,visual, olfactory or what? Are you talking about paranoid schizophrenia
or schizoid affective disorder? So you see you cannot generalise you have to have more information
2006-08-18 05:32:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I gather that Schizophrenia covers quite a range of disorders - possibly including "split-personality"...
2006-08-18 02:51:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schizophrenia doesn't mean you have a double personality, although you can hear voices in your head, which can often lead to thinking you are somebdy else
2006-08-18 02:56:38 · answer #7 · answered by Eleanor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means the Brain does not have enough Dopemine.Your chemicals are out of balance.My son has borderline,and he is doing fine.He takes Remeron and Celexa.He does not have the delusions,or hearing voice's.He just has some paranioa and depression.
2006-08-18 04:13:14 · answer #8 · answered by Brandi87 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do, because I work with people who suffer from it! Not one of them carries an axe either!!
I still don't understand how such a recognised illness can be so misunderstood?
2006-08-18 05:29:19 · answer #9 · answered by Fluke 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only the ones that think of DSM-IV-TR as the bible of mental health.
Personally i don't and i couldn't care less for those that do. Not untill they take their blinkers off anyway.
2006-08-18 03:00:33 · answer #10 · answered by Part Time Cynic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋