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someone you know or love, could be going through something similar and may need your knowledge and understanding to face off with what can now be understood and validated for many. What a gift that would bring to many who need only that to begin their healing journeys.

Beginning with schizophrenia and it's listed meaning under the DSM-IV, (Bleuler's)

1)Fundamental symptoms: thought disorders, blunted effect, indifference, withdrawal, retardation, autistic behavior and mannerisms.

2)Secondary symptoms - mechanisms patients may develop to cope with fundamental symptoms : hallucinations, paranoid ideation, grandiosity.
3)Non-schizophreni c symptoms - emotional disturbances not uniquely associated with schizophrenia: thought disorders, blunted effect, indifference, withdrawal, retardation, autistic behavior and mannerisms.
Also stating that schizophrenia is probably the most misused term in existence. (Carlson 1995) You can see case studies on this at the same website that I quoted in the above paragraph.

This diagnosis is common in people beginning at the stages in life of early adolescence and early adulthood. 24 million people suffer and it holds no special preference for gender. Although women have been found to begin showing symptoms later in life than the male gender do.
One very important fact that will help people understand the difference in DID and Schizophrenia, is that DID is not genetic as the schizophrenia has been found to be.
Now we can go into some facts about DID. After research on this topic, (all being based on what I have learned in the past 7 years on my own), this diagnosis comes from a form of severe child abuse for the most part. Others say that they became DID as adults after a very traumatic event happened to them but I am not a believer in that theory.

The DSM-IV states, Dissociative disorders are so-called because they are marked by a dissociation from or interruption of a person's fundamental aspects of waking consciousness ( such as one's personal identity, one's personal history, etc. ). Dissociative disorders come in many forms, the most famous of which is dissociative identity disorder ( formerly known as multiple personality disorder ). All of the dissociative disorders are thought to stem from trauma experienced by the individual with this disorder. The dissociative aspect is thought to be a coping mechanism - the person literally dissociates himself from a situation or experience too traumatic to integrate with his conscious self. Found

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