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Q: the Symptoms of Skitsofrenia
asked by: charmedwitch on September 18th, 2007
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hey there
i was wondering if someone could tell me what the signs are of having skitsafrenia
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redeme
replied on September 20th, 2007
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type in a search on google for it, im sure youll find everything you need. general signs are delsuional thoughts, bizzare thoughts and beliefs, hallucinations, hearing voices, paranoia, depression , delusions of the granduer
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wax
replied on March 17th, 2009
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Skitsofrenia is largely misunderstood and dumped into the catagory of illness, where maybe it doesnt even belong. There is such a thing as healthy skitsofrenia. Dont be afraid of it, just look at skitsofrenia from this perspective: having to think,work,act in multiple different ways to achieve the same goal or objective, because one character has a certain set of abilities different from the other, that they each exell at.
Working in a group to achieve these goals.
Adapting to the role most needed in the group to reach this goal.
You need to be able to control your own mind though, and realize that you are all those characters and also what your intention is.
Everything is what we can imagine it to be.
Don't need someone to tell you what the signs are, you need to explore yourself to find that out.
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PsychoPsychic
replied on March 17th, 2009
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wax, you are describing DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) otherwise known as multiple personality disorder which has NOTHING to do with schizophrenia. I will explain schizophrenia (that is how you spell it by the way) it is the most devastating of all the mental illnesses. It is divided into "positive" symptoms and "negative" symptoms which have nothing to do with good or bad. It means added or subtracted from a "normal" person. The positive symptoms include delusions (a false belief), hallucinations (any of the senses can be affected, but hearing voices is the most common followed by visual hallucinations), disorganized speech/behavior, catatonia, and the negative symptoms are things like anhedonia, flat affect, not talking much or taking care of yourself, etc. The delusions in schizophrenia are usually bizarre (there are 2 categories of delusions, nonbizarre and bizarre) and the bizarre ones are impossible to happen in real life where as the nonbizarre ones can but of course it isn't. So, that is what schizophrenia is.
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