March 5 for mental awareness

https://mindyourmind.ca/expression/b...y-disorder-day

[Michael W. Harris]

Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2

March 5 for mental awareness

https://mindyourmind.ca/expression/b...y-disorder-day

I went to this site and read the info about DID. They gave a percentage of 3% of humans that are dissociative. I get irritated when the mental health professionals give a percentage. Since there are so few mental health professionals that understand the mental illness, I do not think they actually know a correct percentage! I believe that the people who are called schizophrenic actually have a severe case of dissociative disorder. I believe that will be proven in the future. That would totally increase the percentage.

Anyway, thanks for sharing the site.

[whispers_inthedark]

Originally Posted by Michael W. Harris

I went to this site and read the info about DID. They gave a percentage of 3% of humans that are dissociative. I get irritated when the mental health professionals give a percentage. Since there are so few mental health professionals that understand the mental illness, I do not think they actually know a correct percentage! I believe that the people who are called schizophrenic actually have a severe case of dissociative disorder. I believe that will be proven in the future. That would totally increase the percentage.

Anyway, thanks for sharing the site.

schizophrenia and did are two totally different disorders with different brain activity linked to them. i don't agree with that but i agree that the percentage is probably higher, it's just hard to know when many people go through life not knowing they have a dissociative disorder.

[Michael W. Harris]

Originally Posted by whispers_inthedark

schizophrenia and did are two totally different disorders with different brain activity linked to them. i don't agree with that but i agree that the percentage is probably higher, it's just hard to know when many people go through life not knowing they have a dissociative disorder.

My Mom was diagnosed as schizophrenic when I was about twelve. She was in a psych hospital for about two months and they gave her massive doses of shock therapy. Late in life when I was studying dissociative disorders for my own mental health problems I realized that my Mom was dissociative. She told my brother and me about being molested when we were just toddlers. For one thing that shows you how it affected her and also that she did not know appropriate behavior with her children. My Mom was traumatized in multiple ways during her toddler years and early childhood.

So sometime around 1995 I took her to a woman who had been working with abused women and girls for years. I told the woman that I just wanted her to tell my Mom that she was not schizophrenic. Mom went to her for about three days. I was referred to this woman, who only had a Bachelors degree, by a well known clinic in Smyrna, Georgia that was affiliated with Emory Univ. They recommended her as a specialist in female trauma. She had a PHD Clinical Psychologist working with her. On the last day they told me and my Mom that she was not schizophrenic. They told us that back in the day the mental health professionals labeled everyone as schizophrenic due to lack of knowledge. They said based on the traumas that she went through as a toddler and young child that she was very likely dissociative but without long term therapy they could not give that diagnosis yet.

Mom was very old at that time so long term therapy was not viable.

This just shows that until the science of mental health is developed more, patients should always question the mental health professionals and hold them accountable for their professional mistakes.

[Michael W. Harris]

Originally Posted by whispers_inthedark

schizophrenia and did are two totally different disorders with different brain activity linked to them. i don't agree with that but i agree that the percentage is probably higher, it's just hard to know when many people go through life not knowing they have a dissociative disorder.

Let me clarify my statement. I believe that schizophrenia may be caused by traumas during early childhood just like dissociative disorders are.

This could be confirmed when mental health professionals start collecting that type of data from the patient or family members.

Data collection is how science is developed. Just ask the biologists, botanists, zoologists, physicists, chemists, etc.

[usrname]

Originally Posted by Michael W. Harris

Let me clarify my statement. I believe that schizophrenia may be caused by traumas during early childhood just like dissociative disorders are.

This could be confirmed when mental health professionals start collecting that type of data from the patient or family members.

They do collect that information, they are patients just like anyone else with a mental illness. I know a couple schizophrenic people and one described his mental illness as being caused by trauma while other experienced traumas after diagnosis. I don't think it's good to generalize about a cause like this because it can be more complicated than that. It's theorized to be caused by genetics, brain chemistry, and life experiences, so definitely no one is rejecting the possibility for trauma to contribute to the development of schizophrenia.

Wow you all...this has changed since I last looked at it....

I always thought skitzophrenia was if not genetic and inherited...but not like bipolar triggered because it seems most are born activated with it. Bit I don't know because
I no real studies to back it up.