Schizophrenia vs Multiple Personality Disorder

Probably the two most frequently confused psychiatric disorders, schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder, are worlds apart in their core features.

[logangomez]

I never knew these were frequently confused psychiatric disorders. One of them deals with hearing voices and fragmented reality and the other one deals with expressing multiple personalities.

[phish_]

Brain is a very important body part! If you loose mind it’s dangerous!

When I’m alone sometimes I remember things at work especially a happy thoughts! I find myself smiling while remembering things… Sometimes though when you are watching movies you are carried away with it the you find yourself laughing alone….

Brains are like computers!

[CynHicks]

Notice how they name it and your personal experience is only a combination for them to fight you on.

[CynHicks]

You did a GREAT job explaining your own experience here. Thanks.

[tbizzle]

wow didnt know that. i learned something new today, thanks.

[leoxx]

I’m watching this as I’m typing my HW I have to submit in 30 minutes lol thanks brother

[khadijahlong]

I was diagnosed with DID and psychosis
I have to take a antidepressant and antipsychotic
Doesn’t help with DID but helps with my psychosis

[Chuck_Nrris]

I am pretty sure I have both. I am diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder ( schizophrenia + major depression in my case) and PTSD. I have never talked with my psychologist about maybe having DiD. The thing is that I have large holes in my memory. I cant talk about something I cant remember.

[nicobrown]

This is my question...I have a friend who clearly has mental health problems, is it possible that a schizophrenic can hear voices that outside of his head? Then I have this question with the example used of a person could be in a class room thinking, that they're in space. But the DID person could be in the space but not even know that he was in a classroom, My question is...Can a person be doing something like repeating a phrase over and over, which he also has Tourette's not remember doing so once they have snapped back into their space? Just trying to gather infomation on this because he has schizophrenia he has 3 voices that he hear's, but he interacts with them like he would a flesh and blood person. He can't see them just hear them. But there are times I think these voices are some type of altar personality, because he does thing's that he doesn't remember. I am a loss at how to deal with these enitities if they are truly coming forward. He more less dealing with a 43 year old 9 year old. He is funny has a sense of humor, it's sometimes he doesn't know when to be serious, to stop doing things that are childish.

[lunenyxx]

What about this:

I hear vocies in my head and everyday i act diffrent for example im happy, really depressed, or i dont want to talk or be with anyone.

I heard you can break the barrier from sepret personalities. Is this true? Could i have mpd or did with the barrier broken

But other then that im believed to have schizophrenia

[bobbysgirl]

I have DID and paranoid schizophrenia with command hallucinations. I also hallucinate and have severe somatoform disorder which has caused many accidents. Sick of hearing the two don't co exist together

[mariaburdukoglu]

Can someone have both schizophrenia and DID ?If not why?if yes why?

[dreamznaspiratons]

Please how do you treat dissociation on do antipsychotics make it worse if it's misdiagnosed as psychosis?

[blueeyes]

Did you know you can consciously distinguish between different personality states these are something everyone has but switch in and out of naturally these personality states are often based on emotions but are more complex often than realised you act different react differently think differently process differently in each individual state common emotional states often are more defined and complex personality states than less common ones based on less common emotional states these can be consciously defined, split, individualised with things like naming each one, and understood most easily relatable to mpd however it's is chosen and not a result of trauma and it is simple enough to switch back to the normal human state ignoring your labels names splits

[nightmareangel]

I don't know what Kind of mental illness do I have, and I'm still confused. Most likely when I Look myself infront of a mirror, sometimes I don't see my self.

There are some Voices in my head, and sometimes I feel like 4 people talking to me. Sometimes I'm going to my kitchen with no reason, its like Somebody said go to the kitchen and sometimes I talk like its not me.

[jaidebeck]

thank you, therpist saying i have schizophrenia!! :'''((

[FirstnameLastname-cxgo]

"Part of another..." oh, you have no idea how ignorant that sounds to me.

[jackdaniels]

Oh shit I have such bad multiple personalities and wanna know something really really crazy I take one hit of some really good weed and all that bs stops and I'm back to myself literally I hate when I'm not high on some weed because I'll be having multiple personalities and losing it mentally

[chrishastings]

They’re not the same, but they are very connected. Schyzo’s see multiple personalities they talk to. Multiple personalities embody the delusions within themselves. N btw, 99.9% of pple all have these personalities inside themselves but it’s not a disorder, it’s called being a human.