SCHIZOPHRENIA & DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER?! What's The Difference? | Debunking DID Ep9 REUPLOAD

[Music] hello everybody welcome back to another video by dissociated this is going to be another debunking did video about the differences between dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia we get a lot of comments and have done in the past especially about whether did is the same as schizophrenia whether it's the same illness with a different name whether they're similar or very very different a lot of people seem to be under the impression that dissociative identity disorder which was formerly known as multiple personality disorder is a psychotic illness in the same way that schizophrenia is this is not true dissociative identity disorder is not a psychotic illness but schizophrenia is some symptoms of schizophrenia being a psychotic illness is that it often comes with symptoms like hallucinations delusions paranoia disorganized speech and disorganized thought patterns disorganized movements as well and withdrawal from society it has absolutely nothing to do with dissociative identity disorder or having multiple personalities or alters in any way shape or form people with dissociative identity disorder are not delusional and they're not hallucinating having their alters and that's one thing that's a very big difference between schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder is that with schizophrenia often symptoms involve hearing or seeing things that aren't really there in the physical world they're hallucinations and delusions but with dissociative identity disorder the voices that people with this disorder have are in some sense real obviously they're not real in the external world but they're not having delusions of having multiple people taking over their body this is an actual thing that happens due to a defense mechanism in the brain to protect from trauma it's all about amnesic walls and having different personality states different memories being separated by memory loss in order to allow the individual to live a somewhat normal healthy life without being burdened by memory of the trauma in childhood which causes the id to develop so while people with disassociative identity disorder may have symptoms that are related to or similar to psychosis in terms of hearing voices for example dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia are very very different illnesses one thing that is similar though between people who suffer from schizophrenia and people who have dissociative identity disorder both of those illnesses come with a very big stigma attached by society's views on one individual must be like if they have these disorders one stigma that is very very common surrounding both of these disorders is that they must be dangerous or are more likely to be criminals than any other member of the population when it comes to both of these illnesses that is not true at all people with dissociative identity disorder and people with schizophrenia are no less likely and no more likely to commit a crime or be violent than any other person that you may meet walking down the street regardless of whether they have a mental illness or not in fact both people with schizophrenia and associative identity disorder are more likely to be victims of abuse another thing that's similar between schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder is that it can't be cured with exercise or healthy eating or willing it away you can't just say to someone who's experienced a delusion or a hallucination and say it's not real you know it's not real you're making it up deal with it get over it treatment for dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia requires evidence-based therapy being given by a professional so as i said schizophrenia is a very different disorder from dissociative identity disorder but people with dissociative identity disorder can also have experiences with symptoms of psychosis and psychosis is a very big part of schizophrenia psychotic symptoms include delusions delusions of false beliefs that can't be changed by evidence hallucinations hallucinations are hearing or sensing voices that aren't real or aren't really there this can be things other than just voices so you can see things that aren't really there hear things feel things that aren't really there and hallucinations are a symptom that can come with dissociative identity disorder but are very very integral to a diagnosis of schizophrenia so somebody with the id may or may not suffer from hallucinations but somebody with schizophrenia will definitely suffer from hallucinations disordered thinking so muddled thoughts and confused speech patterns movements that are disorganized thought processes that can be easily interrupted because people with did do exhibit symptoms that sound like this it's not a psychotic symptom the reason that a lot of people with dissociative identity disorder can struggle to keep the train of thought and may have slightly muddled speech is because they're dissociating and dissociation is something that is integral to a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder hence the name dissociative identity disorder so in people with the idea that's not a psychotic symptom but it is a symptom of psychosis for people with schizophrenia i think correct me if i'm wrong i'm pretty sure that's right but i mean yeah don't don't hesitate to um educate me if i am wrong because i don't want to be putting any incorrect information out there but to the best of my knowledge that's accurate however despite having a lot of psychotic symptoms schizophrenia can involve symptoms that also aren't psychotic so non-psychotic symptoms can include things like losing the ability or not being able to express emotions very well not being able to express thoughts and feelings they may also experience low motivation and a lack of pleasure some people who have schizophrenia may also have cognitive deficiencies such as problems with memory and recall issues involving mental skills and memory span attention verbal skills and other mental functions but let me say every single one of these symptoms may or may not affect somebody with schizophrenia just like with anything it's an individual experience and it can be vastly different in the way that it develops per individual everyone's experience will be a little bit different so you don't have to have every single one of these symptoms in order to have schizophrenia however it is quite common for people with schizophrenia to experience functional decline and this can affect people with dissociative identity disorder too we may find it harder to work or create lasting social relationships and even organization just simple things like that can be very difficult which has a big impression on your life you wouldn't think that such little things could have such a massive influence on the way somebody is able to express themselves and go about living as they wish to but a long lasting period of functional decline is generally a strong symptom of both dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia but of course when it comes to every disorder there are people who are high functioning and people who are low functioning and people who are somewhere in the middle so it's completely possible to have either dissociative identity disorder or schizophrenia and be very very high functioning that means able to get a job able to organize having very strong long-lasting relationships with people who are important to you just because you have or suspect that you may have dissociative identity disorder or schizophrenia doesn't mean that your life is over and that you'll be unable to achieve the things that you want to achieve especially if you have good treatment and therapy because there are options out there to help you with both of these disorders and although yes they are very very different they are both extremely misunderstood by society and people who are otherwise uneducated on the topic so there are things that are in common between individuals who have did or schizophrenia but the illnesses themselves form and develop in very very different ways just like with dissociative identity disorder you can't catch schizophrenia there does seem to be a few different ways that schizophrenia can develop we aren't super duper sure right now there's still a lot of research going into this but it does seem that evidence is pointing towards a a hereditary link so if somebody in your family has schizophrenia you're more likely to develop it it may be something to do with a recessive gene but like i said there's still a lot of research going into it and it's the same for dissociative identity disorder you can't catch these disorders because they're not illnesses they're not colds you can't get schizophrenia or dissociative identity disorder from having a bang to the head or having a particularly bad flu or anything like that in order to develop dissociative identity disorder a child before the ages of seven to nine must experience repeated trauma and it needs to be before those ages of seven to nine as that is when the personality fully coalesces into one so if there is repeated trauma before the personality integrates then the mind can say nope can't deal with this can't leave this behind and pretend it doesn't happen and live a normal life because it was so traumatic so what happens is the mind puts up an amnesic wall which means that the mind is separated into let's say two parts so on either side of this amnesic wall no memory can be shared so one part of the mind will have the memory of this trauma and the other part won't and the part without is then able to go ahead and live daily life without awareness of this trauma having happened to the child but the part on the other side of the wall will have that memory so as the child grows these two parts of the mind will develop as separate individuals we already know because of how they developed that they have their own memories they will have their own experiences in life they can make their own friends they will develop their own opinions based on their experiences their own views on the world their own tastes their own reactions to the world around them they develop as different people just like any other child would develop and of course when it comes to dissociative identity disorder you can have many many many alters our system personally has 24 so more than two is fine but just like with schizophrenia you can't catch dissociative identity disorder so that was another debunking did episode for you in debunking did we debunk all the inaccurate information and stigmas that come with dissociative identity disorder and try to shine a light on what it really means and what is the true reality of having a life with dissociative identity disorder and every single piece of information will be linked down below in the description as always all our debunking did episodes are scientific and have lots and lots of links to studies and evidence that i've 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