It's Time to Rename Schizophrenia

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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Schizophrenia describes the illness better than SPD. Sz means a split mind which is a split from reality whereas spd is only sensory like hearing etc and not delusions or disorganized thoughts etc

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"The term SPD doesn’t cover delusions or disorganized thoughts"

But doesn’t the last two words…‘perception disorder’ cover those bases?

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Idk what you mean by perception then. Not sure if perception covers disorganized thoughts.

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‘perception disorder’

Your perception of many things around you is skewed while psychotic. The way you interpret and perceive information is out of whack.

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I guess it could work as our perception of ourself is also skewed.

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But really the stigma will be attached again to the new term. I dont think a new term will get rid of stigma as long as we have schizophrenics going off meds and doing crimes.

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Sensory- Dealing with the senses

Perception- How information is interpreted

Disorder- Disorganized, mixed-up, confusion

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I would call it sid or stress induced disorder

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SPD Social Party Deutschland. That name is taken. I am happy with the word schizophrenia. It doesn’t mean to me violent,abusive,aggressive and unpredictable ( that is maybe called a psychosis.)

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lol. Acronyms are not first come first serve. There’s plenty of stuff that is abbreviated that overlaps into other abbreviations. For a quick example: PC can mean personal computer, politically correct, or police constable.

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You are correct to say schizophrenia is not a splitpersonalitydisorder even i am like dr.hide and Mister Jekyll. Maybe schizophrenia is the familyname for various disorders like phobias,anxiety or any other mentality disorder.

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Reality dysmorphia
Overactive mind disorder
I think it would be good to rename it, hell why not no one from the normal world knows what it is anyways

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"no one from the normal world knows what it is anyways"

Great point! Which is exactly why us schizophrenics should be renaming it and not the doctors or media.

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psychosis spectrum disorder i always too thought was not a bad name. but it just crossed my mind, that a very small number of people with schizophrenia never have psychosis. you can have just negatives and cognitives and still be schizo.

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I think the stigma surrounding the label schizophrenia makes it seem like were all paranoid, talking to aliens or something.

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Should we call schizophrenia “Stigma” ??? As we are already stigmatized with diagnosed sz.

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A lot of the symptoms have nothing to do with perception or the senses. Many people with sz don’t even hallucinate.

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The psychosis spectrum is already a well-established and well-used term so that name is ambiguous and easily confused with the current meaning of the psychosis spectrum.

Also (in case you didn’t already know this) there is already a decent movement and pretty broad support for changing the name among health professionals. But no agreement yet as to what would be a good name.

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'A lot of the symptoms have nothing to do with perception or the senses. Many people with sz don’t even hallucinate."

I don’t hallucinate or hear voices, but my delusions of reference and delusions of persecution are certainly covered under the ‘sensory’ label.

I input information incorrectly while psychotic…thus the perception disorder.

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There’s also negative symptoms, symptoms of thought disorder, catatonia, and (maybe the most important of all) cognitive impairment.

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