Do I have mild schizophrenia?

Question

I have multiple (2 or 3 to be exact) personalities and occasionally I talk to myself, when no one is around. If I have to let something out (usually caused by fights, arguments or humiliation) I can have a conversation with myself for up to an hour or more. Does that make me a mild schizophrenic?

Answer 1

Schizophrenia is a chronic and often debilitating mental illness. The condition can cause you to withdraw from the people and activities in the world around you and to retreat into a world of delusions or separate reality.

Schizophrenia is a form of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which the interpretation of reality is abnormal. Psychosis is a symptom of disordered brain function.

The illness affects approximately 1 percent of the population worldwide. In men, schizophrenia typically emerges in the teens or 20s. In women, the onset of schizophrenia typically is in the 20s or early 30s.

There's often no cure for schizophrenia, but by working closely with a psychiatrist and other mental health professionals, schizophrenia can be managed successfully — especially with an early diagnosis. Fortunately, newer medications continue to make this poorly understood disorder more manageable.

Signs and symptoms
Signs and symptoms of schizophrenia may include:

Delusions — personal beliefs not based in reality, such as paranoia that you're being persecuted or conspired against
Bizarre delusions — for example, a belief in Martians controlling your thoughts
Hallucinations — sensing things that don't exist, such as imaginary voices
Incoherence
Lack of emotions or inappropriate display of emotions
A persistent feeling of being watched
Trouble functioning at work or in social situations
Social isolation
Difficulty with personal hygiene
Clumsy, uncoordinated movements
Generally, schizophrenia causes a slowly progressive deterioration in the ability to function in various roles, especially in your job and personal life. The signs and symptoms of schizophrenia vary greatly. A person may behave differently at different times. He or she may become extremely agitated and distressed, or fall into a trance-like, immobile, unresponsive (catatonic) state, or even behave normally much of the time. Signs and symptoms that occur continuously and progressively may indicate schizophrenia.

In general, schizophrenia has symptoms that fall into three categories — negative, positive and cognitive:

Negative signs and symptoms
Negative signs and symptoms may appear early in the disease, and a person may not think he or she needs treatment. They're referred to as negative because they indicate a loss of behavior or of a personality trait. Negative signs generally accompany a slow deterioration of function, leading to your becoming less sociable. Such signs may include:

Dulled emotions (lack of expression)
Inappropriate emotions (laughing while expressing terrifying images)
A change in speech (speaking in a dull monotone)
Positive signs and symptoms
Positive signs include hallucinations and delusions. They're called positive because they indicate a trait or behavior that's been added to the personality.

Hallucinations. Hallucinations occur when you sense things that don't exist. The most common hallucination in schizophrenia is hearing voices. You may carry on a conversation with voices that no one else can hear. Or you may perceive that voices are providing you instructions on what to do. Hallucinations may result in injuries to other people.
Delusions. Delusions are firmly held personal beliefs that have no basis in reality. The most common subtype of schizophrenia is paranoid schizophrenia, in which you hold irrational beliefs that others are persecuting you or conspiring against you. For example, some people with schizophrenia may believe that the television is directing their behavior or that outside forces are controlling their thoughts.
Cognitive signs and symptoms
These signs and symptoms tend to be more subtle than positive and negative ones. Cognitive signs and symptoms may include:

Problems making sense of incoming information
Difficulty paying attention
Memory problems
Misconceptions about schizophrenia
Schizophrenia may exist alone or in combination with other psychiatric or medical conditions. Misconceptions about schizophrenia and its relation to other mental illnesses abound. The following truths will help clarify what it is and is not:

Schizophrenia isn't the same as a split or multiple personality. Multiple personality disorder is a separate, rare condition.
Although some people with schizophrenia develop violent tendencies, most don't. Many withdraw into themselves rather than interact with others.
Not everyone who acts paranoid or distrustful has schizophrenia. Some people have a paranoid personality disorder, a tendency to be suspicious or distrustful of others, without the other features of schizophrenia.
Not everyone who hears voices is schizophrenic. Some people with depression may hear voices. Hearing voices may also occur as a result of a serious medical illness or from the effects of medication.
Substance abuse and schizophrenia
While not necessarily a sign of schizophrenia, drug abuse is more common in people with schizophrenia. Nicotine is a commonly abused drug by people with schizophrenia; it's estimated that 75 percent to 90 percent of people with schizophrenia smoke compared with about one-quarter of the general population. Unfortunately some drugs, such as amphetamines, cocaine and marijuana, can make schizophrenia symptoms worse. Others, such as nicotine, can interfere with schizophrenia medications.

Answer 2

Mild Schizophrenia

Answer 3

Oh yeah very mild.
Do you hear voices?
Are they coming out of the radio or tv?
Do you feel like the whole world is against you?
WHY>
would you like to end your life beause you can't get away from this style of life...........
Go back to being normal..... do not even tamper with what crazy people do.... It only happens if you have knowledge of it.... so go and study something that may benefit you....

Answer 4

It sounds more like what is now called DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), previously MPD. For that however, the different "alters" are quite distinct and some of the alters don't have memory from the others so there are lots of blank spots. DID is an exageration of normal happenings with dissociation.

If what you have is several aspects of yourself with common memory maybe you are just good at seeing more than one side of an issue. Go talk with a psychotherapist if this is a cause of concern or a problem in you life, or is it a personification of the issues that lets you see things different ways?

Answer 5

it depends on your age.
schizophrenia isnt exactly characterized by multiple personalities, its characterized by audiotory hallicinations and disorganization, delusions, and may eventually go into states of catontonia.

schizophrenia developes in the late teens and takes around ten years to become a full blown psychosis.

Answer 6

The answer is no. When a person has multiple personalities, their personalities are generally unaware of each other. You simple have a complex internal dialog. In fact, this is generally a sign of intelligence.

Note: I am not a trained professional. If this situation becomes problematic, tell a doctor.

Answer 7

some people with schizophrenia was also abused, so do think is your fault because it can cause hallucinations lots of bad things happen to me before i was diagnosis we shouldn't be classified as violent people at all

Answer 8

no, schizophrenia is characterized by delusions, not by multiple personalities.
that disorder is multiple personality disorder, but the personalities are unaware of eachother. you would just feel like youve blacked out until your personality comes back.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

it does not sound like schizophrenia but it does sound like DID. check with a therapist