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So lets say a person with DID has schizophrenia, would the whole of the system have it or just parts have it? And would this be sorted with integration or carry through after integration?
Ive often thought, things such as schizophrenia and borderline etc are more of how the brain processes and perceives the world, not something physically wrong. No two minds are the same, therefore no two mental disorders are identical between people. If this is true, it all can be helped by learning to rewire your brain, much less than medication that effects the brain physically. Kind of like anxiety, meds can help but the best help for anxiety is therapy and relearning your thinking process. If this makes sense.
Im curious though, if it carries through after integration; for if it is cured with integration wouldnt that prove it is curable or would it be ruled out (the cure of schizophrenia) and thought of as a lesser form of psychosis? A false psychosis if you will.
Please take no offence to the last statement as i know that none of these mental disorders are fake in any sense, just also wondering how the medical field would explain the cure if it does so happen with or before integration. Im asking partly for my own peace of mind, also for curiosity purposes as i am far from integration
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Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys
Im curious though, if it carries through after integration; for if it is cured with integration wouldnt that prove it is curable or would it be ruled out (the cure of schizophrenia) and thought of as a lesser form of psychosis? A false psychosis if you will.
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as far as I know schizophrenia is not cured by integration of alternate personalities. treatment for schizophrenia is medication and therapy where as there is no medication to directly treat DID. (there is medication to treat PTSD symptoms that accompany DID for many people like anxiety, depression, but as of yet there is no medication to treat DID directly.)
when my alters integrated yes all their positives and negatives right down to including the alters mental disorder diagnosis became mine also.. example One of my alters diagnosis was psychosis (stress induced hallucinations, delusions, strange thinking patterns..) After integration because everything that alter was merged with me I now had problems with psychosis and still do at times. my medications (the same ones that alter was on) are the same ones I am on to take care of these psychosis symptoms, now that alter is one with me.