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TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agocant dx schizophrenia without more info. all we can identify is a few reported symptoms from a third party. the secret messages are called Loose Associations and that with the persistence of belief in the face of evidence to the contrary indicates a delusional belief, but those can occur in several psychotic disorders. for schizophrenia we’d at least need to confirm bizarre motor activity, disorganized speech, and perhaps some negative (withdrawing) symptoms
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thought schizophrenia also needed an audio or visual hallucinatory component?
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
nope! either/or. usually has both delusions and hallucinations but as long as there’s at least one
and with minimal insights, they may not perceive the voices as hallucinations. to them it might be a broadcast or just a noise or something
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well there goes my Psych 101 education from 35 years ago!
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
hey you were close, sounds like you remembered something