Is there an anecdote that causes all schizophrenics to answer the same way?!
Question: The story goes that a woman meets an interesting man at her husband's funeral. They have a great conversation but do not leave together. The next day, she murders her husband's brother. Why? Supposedly, all schizophrenics will answer "so she can see the guy again at the brother's funeral." This doesn't seem diagnostically sound to me, but it's interesting. I believe I first read this story in a Chuck Palahniuk novel. Can anyone verify this?
Answers: The story goes that a woman meets an interesting man at her husband's funeral. They have a great conversation but do not leave together. The next day, she murders her husband's brother. Why? Supposedly, all schizophrenics will answer "so she can see the guy again at the brother's funeral." This doesn't seem diagnostically sound to me, but it's interesting. I believe I first read this story in a Chuck Palahniuk novel. Can anyone verify this?
I know the anecdote you mean but its not schizophrenics its psycopaths that give the same answer.
The story goes like this:
This is a story about a girl.
While at the funeral of her own mother, she met a guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, so much the dream guy that she was searching for that she fell in love with him immediately.
However, she never asked for his name or number and afterward could not find anyone who knew who he was.
A few days later the girl killed her own sister.
Question: Why did she kill her sister?
If you give the answer that she did it thinking if he cmae to her mothers funeral he would come to her sisters it means your a psycopath becase you place more values on your own desires than on your sisters life.
Its not accurate though.
Schizophrenia is not a single disease but a spectrum of disorders. They are the most misunderstood of the mental disorders and there is much misinformation about the conditions among the lay public. I think this story rates as being some of that misinformation. To get more of a "handle" on these disorders type schizophrenia" into Yahoo! web search. In the many links that come up wikipedia has a good summary. Also try "DSM-IV TR" in a web search. This gives info on and access to the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" of the American Psychiatric Association, which is the reference used by psychiatrists in diagnosing these disorders.
I would have answered the question posed by the story teller as: "The woman was not a mentally normal individual."
Good luck in your searches, good mental health, peace and Love!