I feel like it is. My personality changed for the worse since having sz. Even my brothers and parents say so. Sometimes when increasing my ap dosage I can feel my presz personality coming back temporarily. After sz I became impulsive, impatient, grumpy, disrespectful etc My pararents say I became usupportable and annoying.
How can personality change after 22y.o.? I was diagnosed and put on meds at 22y.o.
You brain isn’t even fully developed at 22, hormones barely stabilized too.
So personality can still change drastically at that age
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Dissociative disorder is what used to be called split personality. Skitz is something different again
It is possible to have both though
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How is that? I learned in university that personality forms much earlier than 22y.o.? Can you post a link?
Sz is not split personality. Multiple personality disorder is much rarer than sz.
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Maybe I have dissociative or multiple personality disorders then? Are they more common with sz?
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I don’t have a specific reference, but I was taught in biology that the brain isn’t fully developed until mid 20’s.
And if you ever hand out with a 20 year old and a 25 year old, you’ll see distinct difference in how they see the world, and how aware they are of the consequences of their actions
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Also, personality is fluid. Our personalities change all our lives. We’re not stuck in a personality trait unless we want to be
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It changed for the worse since having sz. Idk how.
I wonder if I can have my orginal good personality back forever if I go on Clozapine?
I seriously doubt you have Dissociative identity disorder or multiple personality disorder, whatever you want to call it. You would have to have at least 2 completely distinct personalities. I would think your pdoc or people around you would’ve picked up on that.
" The disorder is accompanied by memory gaps beyond what would be explained by ordinary forgetfulness."
Do you have these?
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I think its more that my orginal personality changed by 90% rather than 100%, not sure.
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It is a good question. The voices many schizos hear are obviously autonomous parts, which suggests a dissociative component to the disorder.
Incidentally, I have dissociative identity disorder, or at least DDNOS (Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified). I’m not sure I have schiz.
-Albert.
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Sz will do that to you. So will stagnation.
You used to go to the gym a lot, right? So you know that when someone is a newbie, they can’t do much weight or cardio without getting tired. But if they keep working at it, their body will get used to an increased need for energy and create more, as well as make more muscles. Eventually the person will be able to lift more and run for a longer time.
It’s the same with the brain. If it gets used to you doing nothing all day and sleeping a lot, it will produce little energy because you don’t use much energy.
But if you work on getting used to using more energy on social things and physical activites, you’ll find they tire you less, and you’ll start being able to be active for longer periods of time.
Your need for sleep will even decrease because your body will rest more efficiently.
People with negative symptoms get in a rut, which their bodies and brains adjust to.
It’s up to you to put in effort to get out of that rut.
It won’t be easy, and change won’t happen in a day.
But giving up and waiting for a miracle cure, thereby waiving all responsibility for your own life, will NOT do you any good.
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It’s split mind, not multiple personalities
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I feel like I am a true (hopefully recovering, btw) schizophrenic because my mind is so split into two personas.
it is pretty dammm annoyinn
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in my creative writing, many of my poems have two separate thoughts going on,
and then I connect them at the end.
idk, I often wonder about split personality too,
but I’ve never brought it up with a pdoc.
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Yes when I was on Abilify as my negative symptoms are a lot better on Abilify but cant use it anymore due to side effects.
Did you even read the rest of that post…
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