My voices all have personality and identities they speak through me and in some ways are me. Are we as “schizophrenics” just more aware of these identities since in some cases we see hear and feal them ?
I don’t think so.
I have schizophrenia and I don’t hear voices.
I see things and feel things but these things I see and feel aren’t other personalities.
Split personality is an associative disorder. It is not schizophrenia. Please talk to your pdoc about hearing voices as meds could very well help you. I seldom hear voices any more since I’ve been on Seroquel.
I have split personality…but I think it has to do with being a gemini. I created a fantasy world growing up where I created another personality for myself through narcissism on the internet…but apparently gemini’s do this often (according to my book on astrology)…Psychosis was a whole nother devil…although my split personalities may have driven me a bit mad.
No. They aren’t real identities. You have an illness that plays tricks on you. It’s manageable through medication and therapy.
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I have disassociate identity disorder…ontop of my sz…its diff…like when i slip into the other personality i wander around screaming im lost… aparently…i have no recollections of this but other people have seen it…i just wake up in weird places mostly the graveyard…so no sz is not split personality…
The things I see and feel and hear are not part of me. It’s not a split of my own personality. They’re their own entities. They come to me, not from me.
Having said that, I realize (now) that it’s because of sz that they exist, and so in that capacity they do come from me. But the experience of sz as opposed to Dissociative Identity Disorder is completely different, so what I said holds true.
I don’t have multiple personalities/identities. I am always myself. The Angels and demons that I experience are seperate from me and talk to me, not as me…
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DID and Sz are not the same, but DID is often misdiagnosed as Sz, rarely vice versa. Recently I’ve been thinking that this might be the case for me(having DID instead). My “voice” or alter can take over my body to a large extent, completely losing time is rare but it has happened under very stressful situations, otherwise we’re basically co-conscious.
In DID voices are only “inside ones head” whereas in Sz they can be both inside or outside. DID can never be treated by antipsychotics(maybe some co-occurring aliments can, but the auditory hallucinations and alters don’t get diminished). I think for me rather than having one or the other I probably have both.
Yesterday I had this odd feeling that I have never had before when I was really anxious, it felt like I was everybody I had ever known and nobody, at the same time, it was very disturbing. Also it felt like I was kinda drifting outside my body at times, or looking trough someone else’s eyes(the last part I have experienced often). And I don’t know if it’s sz or DID but my face morphs badly in the mirror, pictures of me are the same.
I have been dx DID with schizoaffective traits the other day.not schizophrenic.
I don’t know what that means exactly and meds are making me more upset with reality.
I dont know is the answer to your question.
I don’t have multiple identities, but there are things I’ve done and ways I’ve behaved that I can’t believe I did. It is almost like another person did and said those things.
are you literally a turtle
To tell you the truth I think that they are multiple spirits no hallucination or delusions although there are deceptions in the mind but not of the mind.
People with schiz , usually do not have voices with different personalities , ive read that some do, but the overwhelming number do not from experience that is.