Symptoms of schizophrenia and dual personality

Schizophrenia and dual personality are both mental illnesses, and they are relatively serious problems. Schizophrenia patients may develop psychological characteristics of split personality, but this does not mean that people with split personality are schizophrenic, so we must pay attention to the difference and understand them.

1. Split personality is mainly a term from a psychological perspective , while schizophrenia is mainly a medical concept. Of course, patients with schizophrenia may have psychological symptoms of split personality, but it does not mean that people with split personality are schizophrenic.

2. In recent years, mental health problems in China have become increasingly prominent, and the overall prevalence of mental illness has shown a clear upward trend, with schizophrenia being the most common one. Schizophrenia patients account for about two-thirds of outpatient and inpatient visits to psychiatric departments.

3. Schizophrenia refers to the split of a person's mental activities under the influence of various reasons (biological, psychological and social environmental factors), that is, the lack of coordination between a person's thinking, emotions, will and behavior. The patient has a distorted understanding and cognition of normal things, and his behavior is absurd and weird, out of touch with reality.

4. It is understood that there are currently 7.8 million schizophrenia patients in China . Worldwide, one in every 100 people suffers from schizophrenia. If you suffer from this disease, there is no need to feel shameful or ashamed, because everyone may suffer from this disease at some time in their life.

5. The main characteristic of dual personality is that the patient will separate the conscious activities or memories that cause him inner pain from the entire spiritual level in order to protect himself, but he will also lose the integrity of his self (Identity). This type of patient is not common in clinical practice but is often seen in dramas and novels.

6. Medically speaking, the explanation for dual personality is that a normal person has two (or more) ways of thinking at the same time, in which the operation and decision-making of each way of thinking are not interfered with or influenced by other ways of thinking and operate completely independently. Dual personality has received increasing attention in modern psychological research. According to the statistics of the Mental Health Department of the Chinese Medical Association in 2004, 3% of people clearly felt that they had a dual personality, and 13% felt that the dual personality had an adverse effect on their lives.

Dual personality has a serious impact on the patient's normal life. Generally speaking, patients often have two sets of thoughts running when thinking about a problem, which affects the collection of information and also has an adverse effect on the choice of results: patients may be unable to choose or be indecisive, causing anxiety, dizziness, headache, insomnia and other symptoms.