Is it schizophrenia if a person knows he has it?!
Question: I have a friend who talks to himself, laughs alone, acts weirdly, etc. but he KNOWS he's doing it. He said that it's all for fun. Is he schizophrenic?
Answers: I have a friend who talks to himself, laughs alone, acts weirdly, etc. but he KNOWS he's doing it. He said that it's all for fun. Is he schizophrenic?
The thing that makes paranoid schizophrenia a debilitating illness, is that the patient truely believe what he or she percieves in any of the 5 sensory modalities, or that his or her deluded belief, is actually real/true. Thus, until treated, will not know that their perceptions or beliefs are fake/false.
Also, talking to ones self is not a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. Nor is laughing alone.
Either he is or could just be another good actor. Only you can figure it out.
PS Please answer my question I posted......
Your questions are making me paranoid.
good ? the answer is yes they can know .....but unlikey when it is giong on
maybe, he'd have to see a psychiatrist before anyone can lable him as such.
Typically, if there isn't something else wrong psychologically, yes, they know. In therapy, I have seen my share. I tell them they can have 5 minutes to "do their thing, then we need to get to work."
Or, I tell them, "Right now we need to focus on the therapy."
Either way, they listen.
Not only are they aware. They can control it.
Theoretically, Schizophrenia is a means of coping with trauma. It does not equate to insanity.
I've posted a link to the DSM-IV TR Diagnostic criteria for Schizophrenia.