DID vs Schizophrenia

 I would like to address the difference between Schizophrenia and DID.

With Schizophrenia, a person hears voices in their heads.  They hear and see what is not there. there can be many voices and faces the person with schizo hears or sees. IE.."A Beautiful Mind" the movie with Russell Crowe.  The condition can be brought under control with drugs, and therapy.  Schizophrenia is a mental illness.

DID, Disassociate Identity Disorder. DID is a mental condition. With many separate personalities living inside...with DID, I do not hear them, I do not see them,  when they front, I have no ideal.  I do not talk to them, and they do not talk to me (ie voices in my head) They are completely different identities.  I lose time when they are out...they never come out as a group.  It is always one at a time.  DID is a condition that cannot be fixed.  There is no medication to stop it.  You can do therapy, but that is to learn to accept and try and integrated them into your life.  To live in harmony with them.  DID, once there, is always there.  

Schizophrenia is a mental condition that a person has they wore born with, or inherited from relative. It is organic. It is not brought on by trauma.  Certainly trauma can acerbate this condition, but it is not the root cause.

DID is a condition brought on by physical abuse or trauma of some sort experienced as a small child.  A person is not born with DID.  DID is man made by fuck assholes who hurt children beyond what their little forming minds can handle.  The root cause is extreme physical and mental abuse to a child.

A person with DID, can not have a conversation with an alter, schitzos talk to and interact with the voices or visions.  When an alternate personality is out, the host body becomes that person.  Schitzos are still themselves, just with other "entities" interacting.  DID patients do not interact with their alters...I do not have running conversations in my head with the alters.  When an alter is out, my complete mind is the one fronting.

Schizophrenics' do not have triggers...the voices come and go at will depending on the medication.  DID has triggers that will bring out an alter, and no medications can control that.

I am certainly no fucking doctor, but I think I described the differences pretty good.

I am not schizophrenic.  I do not have a mental illness.  

I have DID.  I have a mental condition.

A mental illness can be treated with medications.  A mental condition cannot be treated with meds, you learn to live with it.

A broken arm can be treated...set and cast..and will heal.  A deformed arm cannot be treated...set or cast...you learn to live with it.  to adapt...DID, you adapt...

S