Do you think schizophrenia should be renamed?

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Renamed to Dementia Praecox?

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  • No

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Dementia Praecox is the original name for schizophrenia, and I think it more accurately describes schizophrenia. It’s like a dementia that hits in your early 20’s typically a little later if your female. The reason why I think schizophrenia should be renamed to Dementia Praecox is because it is reminiscent of dementia. Which there is no stigma attached to dementia. People tend to feel sympathy for people that have dementia. People with dementia can hallucinate too.

If you say no to the poll, put down the name you think schizophrenia should be renamed to.

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Personallyi dont thinking should be renamed. I work in aged care and there’s a pretty big difference between someone with dementia and someone with sz. It is its own unique cognitive skills.

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I think for some schizophrenics the cognitive damage is so much that it can be called mild dementia. But I think the reason it was changed to sz is that the cognitition loss occurs at 1st episode and stays stable afaik. While in dementia there is cognitive loss getting worse with time until death.

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I see. I just feel the original name is at least more allusive/ambiguous. It sounds more like a medical term, where as the phonetics of schizophrenia just sounds scary/evil

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I just don’t see the huge difference. If you look up the symptoms of dementia, we experience many of the same things. I guess yeah dementia patients have more severe cognitive loss. But we experience cognitive loss so early in our lives.

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Front.
Loaded.
Trouser.
Syndrome.

FLTS.

That’s my choice.

I want to be stigmatized in a way that would be awesome.

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ok lol. 15151515

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Dementia generally stays until death, but the part of my illness that was like dementia went away with treatment. That’s the main reason I think avoiding the term dementia in the name is a good idea.

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“My mental illness is so long it turns the corner before I do.”

SCHA-WIIIINNNGGG.

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The medical difference is that dementia is neurodegenerative which means it gets worse with time while sz isn’t.

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ok fine whatever, I guess you guys win. :unamused:

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Doesn’t matter what name you give it, living with it will still suck as much. I’ve also been around long enough to know that changing the name of a population will NOT change broadly held beliefs about that population.

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How about renamed to Split-from-Natural-Realm which make sense to me, what do you guys think?

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Work in split trousers and we could be onto something.

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hmmm… maybe. 15151515

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It makes more sense than “split-mind”. Split mind has never made sense to me.

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haha, should be something, not someone.

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I don’t feel much less slower than pre-SZ. Almost out the other end of the condition as well.

Don’t like the name. Presumptuous.

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I guess you’re probably right. It assumes that everyone with this condition experiences cognitive decline, which I guess might not always be the case, if that’s what you’re saying?

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Yes.

I’m on the cusp of flourishing, even.