In my fourth year of my PhD on schizophrenia and I'm currently writing up my thesis. I'm procrastinating right now so thought I'd do something useful with what I've been studying.

And no, schizophrenia is not multiple personality disorder.

Edit: I have to get dinner and run some errands. I'm really enjoying this so I will definitely get back and answer the rest of the questions.

  • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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    4 years ago

    There are a lot of people with schizophrenia who have poor insight- in my unscientific opinion, it certainly seems to be more than for other disorders. Like, I work with a guy who conceptualizes hearing voices as "people talking in the hallway".

    But that's certainly not everyone with psychosis. And IME, even people who "lack insight" into the symptoms themselves have a lot of insight into how those symptoms affect their functioning- they just don't think about those symptoms as being different from the typical experience.