**“dementia praecox,”**

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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I would prefer this name “dementia praecox,” to schizophrenia

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I like it as it is

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Why was schizophrenia called dementia praecox?

For example, the disorder we know today as schizophrenia was originally called dementia praecox, or early dementia, by Kraepelin (1883), who believed that the brains of individuals who developed schizophrenia had begun to deteriorate prematurely

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Which in the meantime has been refuted.
Sz is not a neurodegenerative disease.

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I didn’t know that thanks for posting it

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What about those of us who don’t have dementia?

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