Renaming schizophrenia

could be meant as fun or serious, you pick. my top 3:

sohizaphrenia
scoziphrenia
shittyphrenia

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Actually, the voices already gave me a name for my experience. They called it parousia.

Parousia is an ancient Greek word meaning presence, arrival, or official visit. From the Ptolemaic period to the second century of the common era “parousia” was used in the East as a technical expression to denote the arrival or visit of a king or emperor, and celebrated the glory of the sovereign publicly.

They claim I have already arrived in their world in some form (or vice versa to me?), and refer to the entire experiences - voices & visuals & all - as parousia. Schizophrenia is a mouthful & I hate the word.

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Here’s my top 3:
Frank, Joe, or Steve syndrome.

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Most recent renaming I have heard of is “Psychosis Susceptibility Syndrome”

And they rekon that has a lot better chance of a full recovery.

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I vote for the removal of any such ‘diagnosis’ of anything mentally as i believe the brain to be far too complex and individuals unique experiences far too different for us to be labelling any of it :smiley: Failing that ‘antibullshit syndrome’ will do.

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fuckpig thats what i’m calling it, stupid dirty fuckpig syndrome

wonder if that will reduce stigma hah

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I think we should call it perception disorder. I mean we perceive things incorrectly and perceive things that don’t exist. On a fundamental level it is a thought disorder with psychotic features but that’s a long winded diagnosis “yeah this is my medicine for thought disorder with psychotic features”

Maybe we should just call it unreality. Like steal the term unreality from dissociative disorder because we have it better (or worse?) :upside_down_face:

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that’s funny… :smiley:
i like ’ derek ’ syndrome…or having a ’ mabel moment ’ :woman: …!?! :scream:
take care :alien:

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I like that…

Perception Disorder Syndrome would work for me.

PDS

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I would rename scizophrenia into: “Mind Worms”

I declare myself an "abstract thinker " :smiley:

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I think schizophrenia is old enough to decide for itself what it wants to be called! We should ask it what it thinks.

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I’m still voting for “front-loaded trouser syndrome”.

Pixel.

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I like “perception disorder” or even mind split syndrome would be a step up from schizophrenia. But perception or reality disorder would probably be the best.

wtf-izcophrenia

Squeezofrenia 11515151515

I’mma squeezophrenic

Paranoid Perception Disorder Syndrome

PPDS or do you DDR?

Maybe it’s madness? Maybe it’s Maybelline?

I don’t say I have sz in my head. I say I’m skittles.

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Psyche disruptive fragmentation disorder.